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Author Sharabi, Hisham, 1927-2005.

Title Neopatriarchy : a theory of distorted change in Arab society / Hisham Sharabi.

Publication Info. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
Contents 1. Neopatriarchy: Concept and Reality; 2. Patriarchy and Modernity; 3. The Social Formation of Neopatriarchy; 4. The Structure and Relations of Neopatriarchy; 5. The Sociohistorical Origins of Neopatriarchy; 6. Neopatriarchy in the Age of Imperialism; 7. The Neopatriarchal Discourse; 8. Radical Criticism of Neopatriarchal Culture; 9. The Final Phase; 10. What Is To Be Done?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
Summary This study argues that the historical patriarchal authority structure of the Middle East has not succumbed to modernization and disappeared or even been fundamentally revised. Instead, it lives on as neopatriarchy: a patriarchal authority that has frozen political and social development.
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Subject Social structure -- Arab countries.
Social structure.
Arab countries.
Patriarchy -- Arab countries.
Patriarchy.
Sex role -- Arab countries.
Sex role.
Social change.
Social change.
Arab countries -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Sharabi, Hisham, 1927-2005. Neopatriarchy. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 0195079132 (OCoLC)31087756
ISBN 1423735587 (electronic book)
9781423735588 (electronic book)
1601299087
9781601299086
0195079132 (Paper)