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Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the “Arab spring”

Publisher: Open Democracy
Author: Deniz Kandiyoti
Type: Report
Date: June 2012
Keywords: Democracy, government, Arab Awakening, Women's Empowerment, Religion, Gender, Politics
Location in CRTDA: Availble for doanload http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/deniz-kandiyoti/disquiet-and-despair-gender-sub-texts-of-%E2%80%9Carab-spring%E2%80%9D
The extreme precariousness of women's rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted for with reference to the rise of politically empowered Islamist parties nor attributed to some unqualified notion of misogyny, but is determined by a complex combination of internal and external influences.

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