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Gender And Status Inequalities In Yemen: Honour, Economics, And Politics, Sheila Carapico
Gender And Status Inequalities In Yemen: Honour, Economics, And Politics, Sheila Carapico
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The aim of this national case study, a synthetic summary of the work and evidence on women in a tribal, Muslim, Arabian, rapidly changing society, is to contribute to the intersection of the Middle Eastern and women-in-development literatures by situating women first within tribal and Islamic settings and then in the context of rapid changes in political and economic circumstances during the past thirty years. It therefore considers feminine roles in the different historical social strata before examining how new services brought by modernization, class formation associated with the penetration of capitalism, and political struggles between right and left all …