Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and Society
  • 2003/297 pages

Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East:

Gender, Economy, and Society

Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney, editors
Hardcover: $62.00
ISBN: 978-1-58826-110-6
Paperback: $23.50
ISBN: 978-1-58826-134-2
This original work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region.

Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures. For some women, for example, globalization has meant increased access to education and employment; for others, it has resulted in heightened repression under ideologically conservative regimes. The authors' nuanced analyses document how women's responses to these changes are affecting the future of the Middle East.

Eleanor Abdella Doumato is a visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. She is author of Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The late Marsha Pripstein Posusney was professor of political science at Bryant University and adjunct professor of international relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Her publications included Labor and the State in Egypt, winner of the Hourani prize, and Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East (coedited with Eleanor Doumato).

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