Organizing women : formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / edited by Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo
. – Oxford New York : Berg, 1997
xv, 244 p. ; 23 cm
. – ( Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. [17])
Formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East / Dawn Chatty and Annika Rabo -- Women's NGOs in the Middle East and North Africa : constraints, opportunities, and priorities / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The reproduction of political process among women activists in Lebanon : 'shopkeepers' and feminists / Suad Joseph -- Domesticity reconfigured : women in squatter areas of Amman / Seteney Shami -- Women in groups in Africa : female associational patterns in Senegal and Morocco / Eva Evers Rosander -- Bahraini women in formal and informal groups : the politics of identification / May Seikaly -- The impact of social and economic factors on women's group formation in Egypt / Shahida El-Baz -- Feminism and contemporary debates in Egypt / Nadje Sadig Al-Ali -- From gender equality to female subjugation : the changing agendas of women's groups in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni -- Women organized in groups : expanding the terms of the debate / Nancy Lindisfarne.
ISBN1859739105 (cloth) : ISBN1859739156 (paper) :
1. Women – Societies and clubs – Middle East 1. Women – Social conditions. – Middle East
I. Chatty, Dawn I. Rabo, Annika