M Moghadam
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8046 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Moghadam |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Moghadam |
| FIRMA | MOGHADAM M |
| AFILIACIONES | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1939-0606 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 118 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 542 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Yanar Mohammed, Iraqi Feminist, RIP
The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity 1860–1979, written by Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor
Scales of violence
As a contribution to contextual global sociology, this article begins with an overview of laws and policies adopted across the Middle East and North Africa region, characterized by neopatriarchal gender regimes. It then turns to Iran, to elucidate Iran's divergence from the global and regional trend and reasons behind that divergence, and the long road to a law on violence against women. To highlight sub-national variation, the article delves int…
What Explains Iran’s Low Female Labor Force Participation
That women’s labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has been consistently low is well known, but explanations vary as to the principal causes. Moreover, many studies examine the female economically active population in aggregate, without sociodemographic distinctions. The puzzle is why women remain under-represented in Iran’s labor force despite high educational attainment, later marriage, smaller family size, and the country’s…
The gendered politics of Iran-U.S. relations
I examine the decades of fraught Iran–U.S. relations through a conceptual feminist IR lens, and I situate the relationship within the broader MENA region beset with rivalries, conflicts and crises. The spotlight is on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the unilateral U.S. withdrawal in 2018, the long sanctions regime imposed on Iran, and the gendered effects on women’s welfare and security. I argue that Iran–U.…
After the Arab Uprisings
Introduction
The articles in this Special Issue draw on feminist IR literature and research within Middle East women’s studies – which has its own association and journal – and seek to expand it by contributing research from scholars that center the Middle East region and issues in their gender and IR work. Across the social sciences, MENA feminist scholars have long contributed important analyses of the state, nationalism, revolution, family law, social poli…
Revolutions and the World-System
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South
Despite the growth of feminist movements and organizations across the globe and the adoption by many states of gender-equality policies, feminist scholars note the patriarchal institutions and norms that privilege men in politics and labor markets. Modern expressions of patriarchy—the public patriarchy of the state, nonstate actors, and labor markets—are distinguished from premodern forms (the private patriarchy of household production and contro…
Response to Jamie Allinson’s Review of After the Arab Uprisings
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Immanuel Wallerstein’s Lasting Legacies
It is remarkable how Immanuel Wallerstein's work resonates with certain students, whether undergraduate or graduate. In courses I teach, such as Senior Capstone in International Affairs and a graduate-level course on globalization, the concepts and framework that Wallerstein developed decades ago have an almost uncanny explanatory power for the economic and political trends that are examined. As an interdisciplinary macro-sociological analytical …
Gender regimes, polities, and the world-system
Institutions, feminist mobilizations, and political economy
Scholars have long established that institutions, both formal and informal, are gendered. But how does institutional change come about, and what prevents it? This article focuses on the debate in Tunisia around equal inheritance for women. Tunisia’s 1956 family law had emancipatory features, but equal inheritance for daughters was not among them, and the issue came to be advocated by feminist groups. The Committee on Individual Liberties and Equa…
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality
Militarization and Gender Inequality
Feminist scholars have long argued that militarism and patriarchy are linked. To date, however, the relationship between militarization and gender inequality has not been empirically tested. Using the Gender Inequality Index and the Global Militarization Index for the period of 1990–2017 for 133 countries, we put the spotlight on militarization to show how it reflects and contributes to gender inequality (in terms of health, education, political …
The Arab Spring and Women’s Movements in North Africa
After the Arab Uprisings
Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation? Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions, based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil societ…
Women in Iranian Kurdistan
Informed by sociological standpoint, intersectional, and gender regime theories, we examine perceptions of a diverse sample of Iranian Kurdish women in the city of Sanandaj about their legal status and social positions. We find perceptions of injustice, oppression, male control, and lack of opportunity associated with both the family and broader society. Kurdish women are socially located in structures and institutions of both private and public …
What was globalization
This contribution draws on world-system, Marxist, and feminist theories to argue that globalization is a stage in the evolution of the capitalist world-system, with distinct geographic, class, and gender features. Although there is some merit in redefining ‘globalization’ to enable its extension back to ancient history, this contribution situates ‘globalization-from-above’ and ‘globalization-from-below’ in a particular stage of world capitalist d…
Gender Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa
Applying Walby’s model of gender regime, with some modifications, to the Middle East and North Africa, I highlight the importance of the family as an institutional domain, replace the ideal types of social-democratic and neoliberal public gender regimes with neopatriarchal and conservative-corporatist, and elucidate feminist organizing and mobilizing as a key driver in the transition from one public gender regime to another in Algeria, Morocco, a…
The Arab Spring and Women’s Movements in North Africa
Introduction
Fundamentalist movements tend to emphasize cultural issues—religion, language, and ethnicity, but also gender, the family, and the position of women. This chapter discusses a set of propositions regarding the rise of Islamist movements in the Middle East, considered as a specific type of identity politics. Cultural revivalism, national liberation, religious "fundamentalism" and sexual affirmation all constituted some of the most vocal and visible…
Women and Employment in Tunisia
Tunisia's legacy of “state feminism” and its strong civil society—including human rights, labor, and women's rights organizations—have placed Tunisian women in advance of their Arab sisters, and women are present across an array of professions and occupations. Still, most Tunisian women remain outside the labor force, face precarious forms of employment, or are unemployed. This article examines women's employment patterns, problems, and prospects…
Gender and National Identity
Introduction and overview - Valentine M Moghadam * 2. Feminine Militancy: Moudjahidates during and after the Algerian War - Cherifa Bouatta * 3. Algeria at a crossroads: national liberation, Islamization and women - Doria Cherifati - Merabtine * 4. National identity, fundamentalism and the women's movement in Bangladesh - Salma Sobhan * 5. Reform, revolution and reaction: the trajectory of the 'Woman Question' in Afghanistan - Valentine M Moghada…
Agency and the Feminist Project in Indonesia
Patriarchy in Transition
The family is perhaps the only societal institution that is conceptualized as "essential" and "natural", and its importance is emphasized by social conservatives across cultures. In this article I examine Islamic discourses on the family, their relationship to patriarchal social structures and neopatriarchal states, and implications for women's legal status and social positions. Attention is then drawn to the contradictions and challenges that pa…
Transnational Feminist Networks
This article seeks to contribute to feminist theorizing, to globalization studies and to theories of social movements by discussing a new organizational form and a new form of women's collective action in an era of globalization: transnational feminist networks (TFNs). The article's empirical section focuses on the origins, objectives and activities of four TFNs, each of which links women across national borders around a common agenda that includ…
Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices
How do women's rights activists mobilize in nondemocratic and culturally conservative contexts? Why do some women's movements succeed in securing the policy outcomes they seek while others fail to realize their objectives? Comparing two recent cases of feminist activism in the Middle East/North Africa region—the Moroccan and Iranian campaigns for family law reform—the article demonstrates the way that political opportunity structures shape the st…
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents
Gender Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa
Applying Walby’s model of gender regime, with some modifications, to the Middle East and North Africa, I highlight the importance of the family as an institutional domain, replace the ideal types of social-democratic and neoliberal public gender regimes with neopatriarchal and conservative-corporatist, and elucidate feminist organizing and mobilizing as a key driver in the transition from one public gender regime to another in Algeria, Morocco, a…
Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernising Societies
The politicisation of gender and restrictive laws about women in Muslim countries have often been explained in terms of the ubiquity of Islam in politics and culture. This paper offers an alternative explanation, one focused on the dynamics of patriarchy and the contradictions of development and social change. Patriarchy is defined here as a kinship-ordered social structure with strictly defined sex roles in which women are subordinated to men. P…
Patriarchy, the Taleban, and politics of public space in Afghanistan
Resistance is fertile”
Social Policy after the Arab Spring
What is democracy? Promises and perils of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring is still unfolding, as is the direction of change, and outcomes may be different for violent and nonviolent uprisings. This article focuses on three early cases of the Arab Spring - Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco - to discuss causes and likely outcomes, gender dynamics, prospects for genuine democratization, and the connection between feminist movements and democratization. A comparative and international perspective highlights simil…
Women and higher education in Iran
Right-wing populisms north and south
Women and Political Leadership in an Authoritarian Context
When Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, presented his proposed Cabinet to the Majles (parliament) in August 2013, one issue brought up in social media was the strange silence of the women members throughout the intensive four-day sessions to assess the ministerial nominees' programs before the vote of confidence. None of the nine women parliamentary members (MPs) used the podium to object that the president had not nominated any woman as minis…
Modernising women and democratisation after the Arab Spring
What has the Arab Spring meant to women, and women's rights, in the region? Three years after the mass social protests of January and February 2011, when and where can we expect the promises of democracy and equality, and the revolutionary spirit of unity and purpose, to be realised? This Foreword offers a stock-taking of events and possible future directions, with a focus on prospects for a women-friendly democratisation
Gender regimes, polities, and the world-system
Women’s Economic Participation In the Middle East
Research Article| March 01 2005 Women's Economic Participation In the Middle East: What Difference Has The Neoliberal Policy Turn Made?1 Valentine M. Moghadam Valentine M. Moghadam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 110–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-1006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Valentine M. Moghadam; Women's E…
Women's Economic Participation in the Middle East What Difference Has the Neoliberal Policy Turn Made? 1
Valentine M. Moghadam, Women's Economic Participation in the Middle East: What Difference Has the Neoliberal Policy Turn Made?, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 110-146
Engendering Citizenship, Feminizing Civil Society
In this paper, I describe how feminists in countries of the Middle East and North Africa are challenging their second-class citizenship largely institutionalized in patriarchal family laws-and are calling for an extension of their civil, political, and social rights. I use the term “feminist” to denote de jureand de factofeminists working to advance women's rights. The paper seeks to make theoretical sense of contemporary rights-based movements a…
Militarization and Gender Inequality
Feminist scholars have long argued that militarism and patriarchy are linked. To date, however, the relationship between militarization and gender inequality has not been empirically tested. Using the Gender Inequality Index and the Global Militarization Index for the period of 1990–2017 for 133 countries, we put the spotlight on militarization to show how it reflects and contributes to gender inequality (in terms of health, education, political …
Explaining divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring has been extensively analyzed but the presence or absence of violent protests and the divergent outcomes of the uprising that encompassed the Arab region have not been explained in terms of the salience of gender and women’s mobilizations. I argue that women’s legal status, social positions, and collective action prior to the Arab Spring helped shape the nature of the 2011 mass protests as well as the political and social outcomes…
Development and Women's Emancipation
Women's Employment Issues in Contemporary Iran
Patterns of Women's Employment in Iran have been Influenced BY the oil-based nature of the economy; by the policy of import-substitution industrialization which has favored capital-intensive, male-intensive industries; by cultural attitudes and gender bias which render many occupations inappropriate or off-limits to women; by women's low level of literacy, educational attainment, and skills relative to men; and by high rates of fertility. These f…
Gender and Revolutionary Transformation
The sociology of revolution has produced a prodigious body of scholarship that is nonetheless deficient in one area: attention to gender in the unfolding of revolutions and in the building of new states. Feminist scholars, however, have been attentive to women's participation in revolutions, the effects of revolutions on gender systems and women's positions, and how gender shapes revolutionary processes, including patterns of mobilization, revolu…
Building human resources and women's capabilities in Afghanistan
The reproduction of gender inequality in Muslim societies
Islamist Movements and Women's Responses in the Middle East
The reproduction of gender inequality in Muslim societies
The Women of Azua
The Left and Political Islam in Iran
Working Women
1. Women, Work and Skill: Economic Theories and Feminist Perspectives, M. Thea Sinclair 2. Library Work: Gender and the limitations of Dual Labour Market Theory, Maura Luck 3. Images and Goods: Women in Retailing, Adelina Broadbridge 4. Shop Floor Control: The Ideological Construction of Turkish Women Factory Workers, Yildiz Ecevit 5. Prostitution and Tourism in South East Asia, Wendy Lee 6. Return to the Veil: Personal Strategy and Public Partic…
Development and Women's Emancipation
Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernising Societies
The politicisation of gender and restrictive laws about women in Muslim countries have often been explained in terms of the ubiquity of Islam in politics and culture. This paper offers an alternative explanation, one focused on the dynamics of patriarchy and the contradictions of development and social change. Patriarchy is defined here as a kinship-ordered social structure with strictly defined sex roles in which women are subordinated to men. P…
Modernizing Women
Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernizing Societies
Research Article| August 01 1993 Patriarchy and the Politics of Gender in Modernizing Societies: Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan Valentine M. Moghadam Valentine M. Moghadam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 122–133. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-13-1_and_2-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Se…
Building human resources and women's capabilities in Afghanistan
Women, Power, and Change in the Middle East
Gender and National Identity
Identity Politics and Women
Women's Employment Issues in Contemporary Iran
Patterns of Women's Employment in Iran have been Influenced BY the oil-based nature of the economy; by the policy of import-substitution industrialization which has favored capital-intensive, male-intensive industries; by cultural attitudes and gender bias which render many occupations inappropriate or off-limits to women; by women's low level of literacy, educational attainment, and skills relative to men; and by high rates of fertility. These f…
Gendered Transitions in Eastern Europe
Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender, and Women's Movements in East Central Europe by Barbara Einhorn; Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Nanette Funk; Magda Mueller; Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies by Valentine Moghadam; Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe by Marilyn Rueschemeyer; Superwomen and the Double Burden: Wom…
Gender and Revolutionary Transformation
The sociology of revolution has produced a prodigious body of scholarship that is nonetheless deficient in one area: attention to gender in the unfolding of revolutions and in the building of new states. Feminist scholars, however, have been attentive to women's participation in revolutions, the effects of revolutions on gender systems and women's positions, and how gender shapes revolutionary processes, including patterns of mobilization, revolu…
The Fourth World Conference on Women
A reply to maley
Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies
Introduction - gender dynamics of economic and political change - efficiency, equality, and women. Part 1: democratization and women in Central and Eastern Europe women and the politics of transition in Central and Eastern Europe democratization and women's movements in Central and Eastern Europe - concepts of women's rights women in East Germany - from state socialism to capitalist welfare state the transition to democracy in Bulgaria - challeng…
Comparative National Development
The Fourth World Conference on Women
The Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW, or the Beijing Conference), held in Beijing on 4-16 September 1995, was the largest conference of any held by the United Nations, including the three previous women's conferences (Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, and Nairobi in 1985). Coming on the heels of the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights in 1993, the Cairo Conference on Population and Development in 1994, …
G ender , P olitics and the S tate
The essays that follow are drawn from invited presentations of the Conference Group on the Middle East, which meets annually in conjunction with the American Political Science Association. The essays published here were presented in San Francisco, August 29‐September 1, 1996, on one of three panels dealing with gender, politics and the state. Thanks to the continuing generosity of the Ford Foundation, five scholars from the Middle East were able …
Patriarchy and Economic Development
At the end of the twentieth century, after four world conferences on women, debates on the impact of economic development on the lives and status of women - including their life-options and opportunities for betterment - continue unresolved. Is patriarchy on the decline, or is it merely its form that is changing? What effect does development have on gender relations, and how do patriarchal structures affect the development process? The chapters i…
Gender and Development in the Arab World--Women's Economic Participation
Political economy of female employment in the Arab region women as mobilizers of human resources in Arab countries women and development in the Maghreb women and development in the Yemen female higher education and participation in the labour force in Lebanon determinants of female labour-force participation in Jordan measuring female labour force in Egypt
Feminisms and Development
Political science (106 obras) · Sociology (90 obras) · Law (78 obras) · Politics (64 obras) · Gender Studies (63 obras) · Law (51 obras) · Gender Politics and Representation (43 obras) · Gender Studies (40 obras) · Economics (36 obras) · Political economy (33 obras)