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Article: From Patriarchy to Empowerment. Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.(Book review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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From Patriarchy to Empowerment. Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Edited by Valentine M. Moghadam. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 384 pp. $45.
The title of Moghadam's collection of essays promises stories of women's progression "from patriarchy to empowerment" but several entries indicate otherwise: Bedouin girls in Israel dropping out of high school; women in Nepal suffering from depression, and women across the Muslim world facing persecution and legal restrictions.
Some of the more informative entries are "Mobilizing Women for Nationalist Agendas," a detailed account of the political status of ...