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  title info:
    title: Seeking legitimacy
    sub title: why Arab autocracies adopt women's rights
  name:
    name part: Tripp, Aili Mari
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in the Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries. Based on extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and north Africa, this accessible study analyzes how women's rights are used both instrumentally and symbolically to advance the political goals of authoritarian regimes as leverage in attempts to side-line religious extremists. It shows how Islamist political parties have been forced to dramatically change their positions on women's rights to ensure political survival. In an original contribution to the study of women's rights in the Middle East and north Africa, Tripp reveals how women's rights movements have capitalized on moments of political turmoil to defend and advance their cause.
  table of contents: Comparing the Maghreb and the Middle East -- Women's rights : comparing the Middle East and the Maghreb -- Setting the stage for gender reforms -- Legislative and constitutional women's rights reforms in Arab countries -- Part ii. Case studies -- Morocco -- Algeria -- Tunisia -- Conclusions.
  note: Aili Mari Tripp.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-306) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ff-----
    geographic code: aw-----
  subject:
    topic: Women's rights
    geographic: Africa, North
  subject:
    topic: Women's rights
    geographic: Middle East
  classification: HQ1236.5.A355 T75 2019
  classification: 323.3/40961
  identifier: 9781108425643
  identifier: 110842564X
  identifier: 9781108442848
  identifier: 1108442846
  identifier: 9781108628242
  identifier: 2019010898
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190417
    record change date: 20200117104310.0
    record identifier: in00004154890