Cambridge Middle East Library: Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work (Paperback)

Nadia Hijab
Cambridge University Press
 9780521269926
0-521-26992-X

Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's positions in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programs and.

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attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been slow and uneven by linking it to political and economic developments. By illustrating particular themes--personal status laws, development policies, political rights--with examples from specific countries, Nadia Hijab builds up an informative overview of the Arab world today.