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Author Krause, Wanda.

Title Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East : Islamic and Secular Organizations in Egypt.

Publication Info. London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (348 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Women Activists in the Middle East; 2 Civil Society and Political Participation; 3 Key Issues for Struggle: Poverty and Marginalization; 4 Practical Considerations for Methodology and Fieldwork; 5 The Islamic and Secular as Means of Participation; 6 Empowerment through the Feminine and Strategic; 7 Women's Activism through Networking; 8 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography.
Summary In the Middle East, and in Egypt in particular, there has always been a tendency to accord complete supremacy to the authority and might of the state, and to see 'society' as a separate, powerless entity. However, after the uprising of 2011, this assumption was turned on its head. And it is the wide range of political activity beyond the remit of the official state where Wanda Krause locates a dynamic potential for political change from the bottom up. She looks in particular at the influential role of women's private voluntary organisations in Egypt in shaping concepts of civil society and dem.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- Egypt -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women.
Egypt.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Women political activists -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century.
Women political activists.
History.
Civil society -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century.
Civil society.
Social action -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century.
Social action.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Krause, Wanda. Civil Society and Women Activists in the Middle East : Islamic and Secular Organizations in Egypt. London : I.B. Tauris, ©2012 9781848858855
ISBN 9780857732149 (electronic book)
0857732145 (electronic book)
9780857722508
0857722506

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