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An Insider Analysis
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- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Hamdan, Amani
- Thesaurus
- moslima's, islam, gender, onderwijs, identiteit, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Studies focusing exclusively on the connection between Arab Muslim women's educational pursuits and their gender perceptions, and how their gender perceptions may have changed as a result of living in two different cultures, are rarely conducted. Additionally, the factors that may influence an Arab Muslim woman's educational pursuits seem seldom investigated. This article is highlighting some factors that may influence Arab Muslim women's gender perceptions. In researching Arab Muslim women's experiences, I considered the diversity and multiplicity of their race, ethnicity, class, and experience. How Arab Muslim women construct the gender aspect of their identities and how these identities may have changed or shifted as a result of living in Canada and attending Canadian educational institutions is explored. The cultural and religious reproduction of gender socialization is a major part of the analysis in this article.
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- This week in Palestine
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 95
- Creator
- Jad, Islah
- Thesaurus
- islam, moslima's, politieke stromingen, recht, verzetsbeweging, Palestina
- Description
- Hamas is portrayed as the 'other,' 'traditional,' 'backward' and the 'out of touch' with the modern world. This portrait of Hamas is not politically innocent and if not outright racism that should not blind us from understanding the growing power of Islamists in the Middle East in general and in Palestine in particular. Through struggle, women's purity once again becomes a keystone of the ethos of suffering, sacrifice, and noble conflict: women's immodesty dishonours the memory of the martyrs: women's preoccupation with trivia and fashion at a time of sacrifice and struggle is an insult to the fighters for liberation: and women’s immodest dress and conduct unwittingly aids the enemy in its designs to corrupt the nation. Islamists also rail against the ethos spread by the work of women NGOs, which entails extravagant advertisements, conferences, high salaries, and donor funds (that is, profits) instead of sacrifice and suffering, while the occupation rages on unabated.
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- Magazine/Tijdschrift
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 2
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- Factsheet
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 46
- Creator
- Maerten, Mieke
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, vrouwenorganisaties, politieke participatie, nationalisme, moslima's, islam, geschiedenis, Midden-Oosten
- Description
- Tussen 1900 en 1940 ontstaan overal in het Midden-Oosten, los van elkaar verschillende vrouwenbewegingen. Vanzelfsprekend zijn er zeer veel onderlinge verschillen binnen de landen van het Midden-Oosten. Alhoewel er steeds contact, solidariteit en beïnvloeding van de verschillende bewegingen in de verschillende landen is, kan er niet gesproken worden van een monolithisch blok Midden-Oosten feminisme. Daarvoor zijn de interne contradicties te groot. Er zijn grote verschillen in realisaties, verloop, soort organisaties, successen, methodes en ga zo maar door. Toch kan er gesproken worden van een zekere eenheid en verbondenheid tussen de vrouwenbewegingen in het Midden-Oosten. Sterk veralgemenend kan gesteld worden dat de reactie van mannen in het Midden-Oosten min of meer positief was zolang vrouwen gesegregeerde organisaties vormden die zich bezig hielden met liefdadigheid en/of ondersteunend activisme ten voordele van de nationalistische strijd. Sterke tegenwind was er meestal wanneer vrouwen meer publieke participatie in politieke bewegingen eisten.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- This week in Palestine
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 95
- Creator
- El-Yassir, Alia
- Creator
- Jaouny, Samah
- Creator
- Abu Eid, Xavier
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- [et al.]
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- emancipatie, vrouwenbewegingen, internationale vrouwendag, moslima's, empowerment, gender, vrouwenorganisaties, milieu, onderwijs, politieke participatie, economische zelfstandigheid, verloskundigen, feminisme, nationalisme, islam, Palestina
- Description
- Because of international womens day on March 8th, this issue is dedicated to Palestinian women and their role in society. The Palestinian woman has always worked alongside her male partner, especially in rural settings, also in times of war and peace. The new Hamas dominated Council also has its share of women deputies. In this issue attention for Palestinian community-based women's empowerment programme Sabaya. Sabaya is a programme that focuses on protecting rural women from insecurity and using empowerment as a tool for increasing independence of these women. Khalil Nakhleh reports of the course she offered in the Master's programme in 'Gender, Law, and Development,' at the Institute of Women Studies at Birzeit University. Rima Tarazi writes about the General Union of Palestinian Women. The Women's Affairs Centre (WAC) is an organization mainly concerned with improving the role of women in Palestinian society, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The WAC operates to challenge the relatively-wide understanding in society, for lack of being informed otherwise, that the way women are sometimes treated is normal and fine. Women make a major contribution to the well-being and sustainable development of their communities and nations, and to the maintenance of the earth's ecosystems, biodiversity and natural resources. The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) concentrated on bridging gender gaps in education in absolute figures. Without a strong commitment to gender equality, drop out rates will increase because of early marriage. Women's political participation will decrease and their economic participation will remain limited. The most serious challenge during the last 10 years has been the inner transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from a grassroots struggle to an elite phenomenon. Presently midwives constitute 3.4% of the health providers in Palestine. There are 16,935 health providers in the health sector, of whom only 574 are midwives. The core of protecting women's rights and achievements in Palestine lies in the necessity of involving women in the democratic process. While Hamas's gender ideology rests on religious idioms, it is nonetheless possible to demonstrate that it is in continuous flux. This is due to ordinary socioeconomic factors and as a reaction to the challenge presented by the discourse with feminist nationalist and secular women, as well as Islamist women’s activism within the movement.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Ali, Farhana
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- moslima's, islam, extremisme, martelaressen, terrorisme, geweld
- Description
- Attacks by the mujahidaat are arguably more deadly than those conducted by male fighters and could motivate other Muslim women to adopt suicide as the tactic of choice. The use of Muslim women to conduct martyrdom, or suicide, operations by male-dominated terrorist groups could have implications on the jihadi mindset, challenging more conservative groups such as Al Qaeda, to reconsider the utility of the Muslim woman on the front lines of jihad. These terrorist groups will likely exploit women to conduct operations on their behalf to advance their goals and achieve tactical gain. Muslim women are increasingly joining the global jihad, partly motivated by religious conviction to change the plight of Muslims under occupation, but others are actively recruited by Al Qaeda and local terrorist groups strained by increased arrests and deaths of male operatives to fight in the name of Islam. Convinced of the operational advantages of using a female fighter, and the media attention she garners—including some sympathy from the Muslim world—men began to rely on women to carry out attacks. While women enlisted and played a pivotal role in operations, including the veteran Palestinian female Leila Khalid for a myriad of successful hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, counterterrorism experts and analysts rarely focused on female terrorists.
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- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Ahmed-Ghosh, Huma
- Thesaurus
- moslima's, islam, etnische groepen, onderwijs, integratie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Author presents the perceptions, attitudes and views of a group of Ahmadi women in Southern California through the eyes of their local leader. The specific focus is on ways in which Ahmadi women engage in cultural/religious community building within a racially and ethnically hostile environment since 9/11. Of particular concern are ways in which gender norms are reflected in Ahmadi women’s push toward formal and cultural education in their efforts to maintain their faith, culture and sense of community as they interface with the broader U.S. society. Given the current anti-Islamic climate in the U.S., the Ahmadis offer an interesting basis for comprehending the diversity among Muslims as well as illustrating how one Islamic group is locally constructed in the global politics of the West.
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