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Modest Aspirations: Day Dreams, Frivolity, And Digital Lives Of Public College Girls In Lahore, Pakistan, Anam Khan
Theses and Dissertations
This project was conceived out of a policy announcement in 2016 where the Higher Education Commission Pakistan announced that the two-year colleges were to be phased out and eventually eliminated. In doing so, the notice suggested that they will be replaced by programs modeled around the United States community college and called Associate Degrees. This ongoing development formed the basis of my research as for many gender and class minorities, these programs are the only option for post-secondary education in a country where many do not have the privilege to go to college. I aimed to analyze the kind of …
The Family Values: Is It Really About The Family? Analyzing The Family In The Egyptian Discourse Through A Sociological Lens, Taher Sabala
The Family Values: Is It Really About The Family? Analyzing The Family In The Egyptian Discourse Through A Sociological Lens, Taher Sabala
Theses and Dissertations
The Egyptian state has put on its shoulders the responsibility of protecting the family and its values. But how this family, in a massive society like Egypt, can be defined? In this paper, I argue that it has never been about protecting the family. However, it is an attempt to shape the citizens into small separate hives which give the State the power to gain access to the intimate details of its citizens’ lives through which they can be easily monitored, managed, and controlled. By analyzing Michel Foucault’s work on government, power, sexuality, and family, I travel through a historical …
Zinā In The Criminal Legislation Act (1999-2000): An Evaluation Of The Implication For Muslim Women's Right In Nigeria, Paul Orerhime Akpomie
Zinā In The Criminal Legislation Act (1999-2000): An Evaluation Of The Implication For Muslim Women's Right In Nigeria, Paul Orerhime Akpomie
Theses and Dissertations
The research engages in an exploration of human rights in Islam. Human rights issues are then contrasted with international law positions. The data gotten is then used for investigating women’s human rights issues in Shariʾa penal tradition regarding zinā (adultery) in Nigeria. The re-emergence of Sharia penal codes adopted by 12 Northern states in Nigeria in 1999 as an operative Islamic law has sparked concerns about rulings amounting to stoning to death in several cases of zinā. These events raised concerns about Shariʾa penal traditions’ legality and relationship with other legal traditions operational in Nigeria, a secular political space. …
The Working Wife: Attitudes, Perceptions And Role-Expectations Of Five Male Cairenes, Laila Stino
The Working Wife: Attitudes, Perceptions And Role-Expectations Of Five Male Cairenes, Laila Stino
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Political Violence On Domestic Violence Against Women: Egypt As A Case Study From 2005-2015, Nevine Henry Wasef
The Impact Of Political Violence On Domestic Violence Against Women: Egypt As A Case Study From 2005-2015, Nevine Henry Wasef
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The thesis discusses the impact of political violence represented by the 25th of January 2011 Uprising whether political, economic, institutional or legal violence, on domestic violence against women. The thesis also approaches social violence as it intersects with both political and domestic violence. So, the interaction between political and social violence, and domestic violence against women will be analyzed to find out how they interact and in what ways domestic violence against women is affected by both variables. Previous research work highlighted the relation between political and social violence or the relation between social and domestic violence with little attention …
Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy: An Ethnography Of Microcredit In Poor Cairo Nighborhoods, Mamdouh Hakim
Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy: An Ethnography Of Microcredit In Poor Cairo Nighborhoods, Mamdouh Hakim
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the development discourses of the household-economy and related issues of power relations, and women's position by focusing on microcredit projects implemented by NOOs targeting women in poor Cairo neighborhoods. In doing so, the researcher reviews microcredit roots and history within development discourses against situated knowledge and value systems about women in poor Cairo neighborhoods. The research's analytical approach of deconstructing development provides the basic framework for the analysis of the language of development; for challenging microcredit assumptions and hypotheses embodied in its discourses; and for considering situated knowledge and practices.The ethnographic work of this thesis examines two …
The National Council For Women: Reassessing The Social, Economic And Political Empowerments For Egyptian Females, Wesam Hamdy Mostafa
The National Council For Women: Reassessing The Social, Economic And Political Empowerments For Egyptian Females, Wesam Hamdy Mostafa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa
Embodying The Everyday Practices Of Urban Water: The Discourse Of Water Scarcity And Women's Subjectivities In Amman, Jordan, Katrin Masharqa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Social Inclusion Or Exclusion? Never-Married Singles In West Amman, Dana Mustafa Sabbah
Social Inclusion Or Exclusion? Never-Married Singles In West Amman, Dana Mustafa Sabbah
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Women's Empowerment Made Visual: Digital Storytelling At Pathways Research Consortium, Laura Worcester
Women's Empowerment Made Visual: Digital Storytelling At Pathways Research Consortium, Laura Worcester
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No abstract provided.
An Environment Of Impunity: Criticisms Of Current Approaches To Sexual Violence, Margaret Natalie Konstanski
An Environment Of Impunity: Criticisms Of Current Approaches To Sexual Violence, Margaret Natalie Konstanski
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Gender Politics In Transition Women's Political Rights In Egypt After The January 25 Revolution, Claudia Ruta
Gender Politics In Transition Women's Political Rights In Egypt After The January 25 Revolution, Claudia Ruta
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Convictions And Ambivalences: Theorizing Power At A Cairene Feminist Ngo, Laura Wulf
Convictions And Ambivalences: Theorizing Power At A Cairene Feminist Ngo, Laura Wulf
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
After Covid-19: Mitigating Domestic Gender-Based Violence In Egypt In Times Of Emergency, Diana Magdy, Hind Ahmed Zaki
After Covid-19: Mitigating Domestic Gender-Based Violence In Egypt In Times Of Emergency, Diana Magdy, Hind Ahmed Zaki
Faculty Journal Articles
In times of crises and emergencies, violence against women tends to increase. The outbreak of COVID-19 has resulted in severe precautionary measures such as social isolation, physical distancing, staying at home, curfews and lockdowns, which brought “normal” life to a halt and created a temporary convergence between the public and the private. The pandemic has forced the global community to turn its gaze back to the private, and compelled them to pay attention to the old/new problem of gender-based violence, particularly, domestic violence that spiked during the pandemic. Against such a backdrop, and using a critical feminist lens that analyzes …
Journeys Of Middle-Class Syrian Women To And In Berlin: Modes Of Subjectivity, Possibilities And Becoming, Randa Adnan Bashlah
Journeys Of Middle-Class Syrian Women To And In Berlin: Modes Of Subjectivity, Possibilities And Becoming, Randa Adnan Bashlah
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an invitation to dive into the possibilities that emerge in the multiple stages of displacement journeys of a group of diverse Syrian women from a middle-class background, who happen to live in Berlin today, and learn about the displaced bodies' experiences from a personal scale. By capturing the journeys' nuances and trajectories, this study demonstrates how the mobile subjects interact differently and create different attachments with different power structures in the various modes which emerge through the journeys' different spatial and chronological stages. Looking at how displacement adds layers of complexity to the social's messiness and diversity, …
The Basha's Tools? Imagining Alternative Justice Futures In Egypt, Farah Ghazal
The Basha's Tools? Imagining Alternative Justice Futures In Egypt, Farah Ghazal
Theses and Dissertations
The dominant approach to addressing violence against women in Egypt today is carceral, or relying on the punitive instruments of the state to achieve justice (most visibly represented by the prison and police). While carceral responses are perhaps unsurprisingly advocated by state feminism, they are also promoted by what would typically be described as anti-state actors. This paradoxical entanglement takes place during what I identify as the 'carceral moment', a period marked by the intensification of political and social repression and during which incarceration appears more readily available as a solution to remedy perceived problems of governance. I argue that, …
Gender, Pharaonic Egypt, Lisa Sabbahy Dr.
Gender, Pharaonic Egypt, Lisa Sabbahy Dr.
Faculty Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
How Private Lives Determine Work Options: Reflections On Poor Women's Employment In Egypt, Hania Sholkamy
How Private Lives Determine Work Options: Reflections On Poor Women's Employment In Egypt, Hania Sholkamy
Faculty Book Chapters
This book presents a comparative historical overview of female employment patterns across the Mediterranean region, analyzing how the relationship between economic development, political change and the cultural environment shapes the evolution of gender roles in interconnected spheres of social life.
Convictions And Ambivalences: Theorizing Power At A Cairene Feminist Ngo, Laura Wulf
Convictions And Ambivalences: Theorizing Power At A Cairene Feminist Ngo, Laura Wulf
Theses and Dissertations
In this project, I attempt to conduct an “ethnography of theory” among women activists in an Egyptian feminist non-governmental organization (NGO). In doing so, I follow the calls for grounding theory of gender and the Middle East in day-to-day lived experience, through ethnography rather than “polemic” (L. Abu-Lughod 2010). This model takes women to be active participants in the creation of their own subjectivities and focuses on the analytic frameworks they employ in understanding this process. The Cairene feminist NGO, New Woman Foundation (NWF), is a forum for a range of professionals, young students, and activists who together encompass a …
Mistakes In Identity: Sexual Orientation And Credibility In The Asylum Process, Michael Carl Budd
Mistakes In Identity: Sexual Orientation And Credibility In The Asylum Process, Michael Carl Budd
Archived Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the prejudice that exists on the part of decision-makers responsible for determining refugee status and adjudicating asylum claims in jurisdictions that accept claims based on sexual orientation. An analysis of case law from both common law and civil law jurisdictions uncovers the negative impact of judicial stereotypes about sexuality on refugees and asylum-seekers. It follows the increasing importance placed on proving the genuineness of the claimants' professed sexual identity that has coincided with an increased emphasis on credibility, a trend that has heightened the impact of decision-makers' biases regarding sexuality. In addition to analyzing case law, the …
Gender, Feminism, And Blogging In Egypt, Irene M. Meshreky
Gender, Feminism, And Blogging In Egypt, Irene M. Meshreky
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Men Selling Sex In Cairo And Alexandria: Perspectives On Male Sex Work And Aids In Egypt, Souad Hamada
Men Selling Sex In Cairo And Alexandria: Perspectives On Male Sex Work And Aids In Egypt, Souad Hamada
Archived Theses and Dissertations
A qualitative approach was used to study the etiology of male sex work in Egypt and report on issues related to sexual identity, sociodemographic characteristics, and work and HIV contexts of male sex workers. Seven male sex workers aged between 17 and 37 were interviewed in Cairo and Alexandria. This preliminary, exploratory study suggests the existence of a strong relationship between childhood sexual abuse and later involvement in sex work. Other secondary factors driving some youth into sex work include poverty, inadequate salaries, unemployment, low education levels and other types of childhood maltreatment including physical, emotional and psychological abuse and …
The Empowerment Of Women: Rights And Entitlements In Arab Worlds, Hania Sholkamy
The Empowerment Of Women: Rights And Entitlements In Arab Worlds, Hania Sholkamy
Faculty Book Chapters
Since the late 1990s rights-based approaches (RBAs) in development have been advanced by the major institutional development actors such as the UN, multilateral and bilateral agencies, and international NGOs. A number of critiques of RBAs have emerged that question whether the emancipatory potential of rights discourse and practice will be realized within development. These critiques, however, have not sufficiently questioned the implication of rights discourse and practice for advancing a gender equality agenda and women 's autonomy. This is an area that needs considerable research, and this publication explores some of the key issues at stake. The publication, based on …
Gender, Social Change, And Living Arrangements Among Older Egyptians During The 1990s, Zeinab Khadr, Kathryn Yount
Gender, Social Change, And Living Arrangements Among Older Egyptians During The 1990s, Zeinab Khadr, Kathryn Yount
Faculty Journal Articles
We compare older Egyptian women’s and men’s propensities to live with unmarried children only, any ever-married children, and alone, and we assess “kin-keeping” versus “modernization” hypotheses about the effects of social change on living arrangements during 1988–2000. Socioeconomic differences among women and men accounted for much of their crude differences in living arrangements during the period. Propensities to live with any ever-married children declined, and propensities to live alone or with unmarried children only rose. Compared to men, women continued to live more often with any ever-married children and less often with unmarried children only, and the 1988 gender gap …
Fgm Abandonment In Egypt: A Case Study Of Changing Behavioural Patterns And Attitudes Towards Fgm In The Village Of Benban, Aswan, Laila Mahmoud El Moshneb
Fgm Abandonment In Egypt: A Case Study Of Changing Behavioural Patterns And Attitudes Towards Fgm In The Village Of Benban, Aswan, Laila Mahmoud El Moshneb
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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Roses In Salty Soil: A Feminist Ethnography Of The Phenomenology Of Women's Depression In Egypt Today, Dalia A Mostafa
Roses In Salty Soil: A Feminist Ethnography Of The Phenomenology Of Women's Depression In Egypt Today, Dalia A Mostafa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
Gender, Forced Migration And Paid Domestic Work: Case Studies On Refugee Women Domestic Workers In Cairo, Amira Abderahman Ahmed
Archived Theses and Dissertations
The main aim of this thesis is to be able to fill a research gap with regard to women and their survival strategies with emphasis on refugee women, mostly from the Hom of Africa, who have fled to Cairo during the 1990s. The presence of refugee women in the domestic labor sector in Egypt is a relatively recent phenomenon. Cairo, as a large urban setting in the developing world, provides an interesting site where all of these distinct actors play the same role and share at least two structural factors: being migrant women and domestics. The basic argument of this …
Gender And Citizenship, Ghalia Walid Gargani
Gender And Citizenship, Ghalia Walid Gargani
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Status Of Women's Rights In Egypt, Sigrid Grude Amb
The Status Of Women's Rights In Egypt, Sigrid Grude Amb
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Terms Of Empowerment, Sherine Hafez
The Terms Of Empowerment, Sherine Hafez
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.