TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tripp,Aili Mari
TI  - Seeking legitimacy: why Arab autocracies adopt women's rights
SN  - 9781108425643
AV  - HQ1236.5.A355 
U1  - 323.3/40961 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Recht
KW  - gnd
KW  - Islamisches Recht
KW  - Politischer Islam
KW  - Legitimität
KW  - Rechtsanwendung
KW  - Rechtspolitik
KW  - Justizreform
KW  - Bürgerrecht
KW  - Gruppe
KW  - Rechtsstellung
KW  - Bevölkerungsgruppe
KW  - Frau
KW  - Gleichberechtigung
KW  - Emanzipation
KW  - Arabische Staaten
KW  - Class of Spring 2017
KW  - Axel Springer Fellow
KW  - Fellow
KW  - Written at the Academy
N1  - Literaturhinweise, Register; Introduction -- PART I. COMPARING THE MAGHREB AND THE MIDDLE EAST -- 1. Women's rights: comparing the Middle East and the Maghreb -- 2. Setting the stage for gender reforms -- 3. Legislative and constitutional women's rights reforms in Arab countries -- PART II. CASE STUDIES -- 4. Morocco -- 5. Algeria -- 6. Tunisia -- Conclusions
N2  - "Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in the Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries.Based on extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, this accessible study analyzes how women's rights are used both instrumentally and symbolically to advance the political goals of authoritarian regimes as leverage in attempts to side-line religious extremists. It shows how Islamist political parties have been forced to dramatically change their positions on women's rights to ensure political survival. In an original contribution to the study of women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Tripp reveals how women's rights movements have capitalised on moments of political turmoil to defend and advance their cause." (Publisher's description)
ER  -