Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work

by Nadia Hijab

Book Overview

Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's position in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programmes and attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been slow and uneven by linking it to political and economic developments. By illustrating particular themes - personal status laws, development policies, political rights - with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052126992X
• ISBN13: 9780521269926
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"