Mounira M Charrad
Biographic Data
| ID | 245420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mounira M Charrad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mounira M |
| FAMILY NAME | Charrad |
| SIGNATURE | CHARRAD M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Arab Spring Protests
In this photo essay, the authors examined over 3,500 photos of the early phase of the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, to capture the meanings that protestors brought to the fore
The “Power of Presence”
The 2004 reforms of Islamic family law in Morocco brought about a long-awaited expansion of women’s rights. The Moroccan women’s movement was a key player in the promulgation of the reforms. We highlight the role of professional women leaders in the movement and show how they developed political capital and the “power of presence” by combining (i) professional attainment, (ii) leadership in women’s organizations, and (iii) active participation or…
Local Solidarities
Coming as a surprise to most observers and following the self‐immolation of a street vendor in a remote town of central Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution of 2010–2011, the first uprising of the Arab Spring, has often been seen as a success story for digital communication through widespread use of social media. We suggest that this applied to the later phase of the protests in Tunisia but not to the initial phase, which occurred in local areas in im…
Gender, Religion, and State in the Middle East
This essay discusses the major trends in the study of gender, religion, and state in the Middle East from colonialism to the Arab Spring. Showing how the field started as a critique of colonial representations of women in the Middle East as passive and subordinate, it reviews briefly the foundational studies. It then indicates the major frameworks that scholars have used subsequently to show the complexities of the linkages between gender, religi…
Introduction
Limits of Empire
The article shows that the concept of patrimonialism is useful for the analysis not only of nation-states, but also of local and imperial power structures. Highlighting the limits of empires, we consider how local conditions shaped the strategies of colonial states in the process of empire building. We argue that the strength of local patrimonial networks before colonization, coupled with the sequencing of colonial conquests, either facilitated o…
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire
Equal or complementary? Women in the new Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring has inaugurated a new form of politics that represents a shift from a 'politics from above' to a 'politics from below' in regard to gender policy in Tunisia. Discourse surrounding state policy on gender, formerly the purview of elite groups, has recently been shaped and driven by popular organisations and associations. This article draws on Habermas to argue that the shift has been facilitated by the emergence of a new public sphe…
Central and Local Patrimonialism
How useful is the concept of patrimonialism to analyze state formation and political dynamics in postcolonial nation-states? Using Tunisia, Morocco, and Iraq during critical periods of state-building following the end of colonial rule, the author considers this question. The purpose of the article is to build on Max Weber by exploring how patrimonialism operates in kin-based social contexts where power on the basis of kinship ties is exerted not …
Gender in the Middle East
The scholarship on gender in the Middle East takes two objectives as its mandate: first, to dismantle the stereotype of passive and powerless Muslim women and, second, to challenge the notion that Islam shapes women's condition in the same way in all places. The urgency of this endeavor is heightened by the fact that gender has come to demarcate battle lines in geopolitical struggles since September 11, 2001, and to occupy a central place in the …
Women’s agency across cultures
Kinship, Islam, or Oil
Gender inequality in the Muslim world has become the object of high drama on the international scene. Ghostlike images of women wrapped in burqas and begging in the streets of Afghan cities swept television screens in the United States following 9/11. The number of articles on Muslim women in English newspapers has increased exponentially in the last few years. Although the popular press and the media continue to emphasize seclusion and subordina…
Contexts, Concepts and Contentions
Debates over gender relevant legislation such as family law have led to serious conflict in many periods of Middle Eastern history, especially in recent times. One way to understand the intensity of the current debates is to recognize that gender issues raise fundamental questions about the relationship between individual and society and the role of states. In this article I argue that, in considering gender relevant legislation in the Middle Eas…
Waves of Comparative and Historical Sociology
Dans cet article, l'A discute de la collection Remaking Modernity, consacree a la sociolgie historique aux Etats-Unis
States and Women's Rights
Policy Shifts
Journal Article Policy Shifts: State, Islam, and Gender in Tunisia, 1930s–1990s Get access M. M. CHARRAD M. M. CHARRAD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 1997, Pages 284–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.2.284 Published: 01 July 1997
Gender and National Identity
State and Gender in the Maghrib
Women and the Family in the Middle East
Women in Muslim Family Law
Journal Article Women in Muslim Family Law, by John L. Esposito. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1982, xii + 155 pp. $18.95 Get access Mounira Charrad Mounira Charrad University of California-San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 389–391, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710839 Published: 01 December 1982
Gender in the Middle East
The scholarship on gender in the Middle East takes two objectives as its mandate: first, to dismantle the stereotype of passive and powerless Muslim women and, second, to challenge the notion that Islam shapes women's condition in the same way in all places. The urgency of this endeavor is heightened by the fact that gender has come to demarcate battle lines in geopolitical struggles since September 11, 2001, and to occupy a central place in the …
Equal or complementary? Women in the new Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring has inaugurated a new form of politics that represents a shift from a 'politics from above' to a 'politics from below' in regard to gender policy in Tunisia. Discourse surrounding state policy on gender, formerly the purview of elite groups, has recently been shaped and driven by popular organisations and associations. This article draws on Habermas to argue that the shift has been facilitated by the emergence of a new public sphe…
Women’s agency across cultures
Kinship, Islam, or Oil
Gender inequality in the Muslim world has become the object of high drama on the international scene. Ghostlike images of women wrapped in burqas and begging in the streets of Afghan cities swept television screens in the United States following 9/11. The number of articles on Muslim women in English newspapers has increased exponentially in the last few years. Although the popular press and the media continue to emphasize seclusion and subordina…
Central and Local Patrimonialism
How useful is the concept of patrimonialism to analyze state formation and political dynamics in postcolonial nation-states? Using Tunisia, Morocco, and Iraq during critical periods of state-building following the end of colonial rule, the author considers this question. The purpose of the article is to build on Max Weber by exploring how patrimonialism operates in kin-based social contexts where power on the basis of kinship ties is exerted not …
Policy Shifts
Journal Article Policy Shifts: State, Islam, and Gender in Tunisia, 1930s–1990s Get access M. M. CHARRAD M. M. CHARRAD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 1997, Pages 284–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.2.284 Published: 01 July 1997
Local Solidarities
Coming as a surprise to most observers and following the self‐immolation of a street vendor in a remote town of central Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution of 2010–2011, the first uprising of the Arab Spring, has often been seen as a success story for digital communication through widespread use of social media. We suggest that this applied to the later phase of the protests in Tunisia but not to the initial phase, which occurred in local areas in im…
Contexts, Concepts and Contentions
Debates over gender relevant legislation such as family law have led to serious conflict in many periods of Middle Eastern history, especially in recent times. One way to understand the intensity of the current debates is to recognize that gender issues raise fundamental questions about the relationship between individual and society and the role of states. In this article I argue that, in considering gender relevant legislation in the Middle Eas…
States and Women's Rights
The “Power of Presence”
The 2004 reforms of Islamic family law in Morocco brought about a long-awaited expansion of women’s rights. The Moroccan women’s movement was a key player in the promulgation of the reforms. We highlight the role of professional women leaders in the movement and show how they developed political capital and the “power of presence” by combining (i) professional attainment, (ii) leadership in women’s organizations, and (iii) active participation or…
Waves of Comparative and Historical Sociology
Dans cet article, l'A discute de la collection Remaking Modernity, consacree a la sociolgie historique aux Etats-Unis
Women in Muslim Family Law
Journal Article Women in Muslim Family Law, by John L. Esposito. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1982, xii + 155 pp. $18.95 Get access Mounira Charrad Mounira Charrad University of California-San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 4, Winter 1982, Pages 389–391, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710839 Published: 01 December 1982
Women and the Family in the Middle East
State and Gender in the Maghrib
Gender and National Identity
Policy Shifts
Journal Article Policy Shifts: State, Islam, and Gender in Tunisia, 1930s–1990s Get access M. M. CHARRAD M. M. CHARRAD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 1997, Pages 284–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/4.2.284 Published: 01 July 1997
States and Women's Rights
Waves of Comparative and Historical Sociology
Dans cet article, l'A discute de la collection Remaking Modernity, consacree a la sociolgie historique aux Etats-Unis
Contexts, Concepts and Contentions
Debates over gender relevant legislation such as family law have led to serious conflict in many periods of Middle Eastern history, especially in recent times. One way to understand the intensity of the current debates is to recognize that gender issues raise fundamental questions about the relationship between individual and society and the role of states. In this article I argue that, in considering gender relevant legislation in the Middle Eas…
Kinship, Islam, or Oil
Gender inequality in the Muslim world has become the object of high drama on the international scene. Ghostlike images of women wrapped in burqas and begging in the streets of Afghan cities swept television screens in the United States following 9/11. The number of articles on Muslim women in English newspapers has increased exponentially in the last few years. Although the popular press and the media continue to emphasize seclusion and subordina…
Women’s agency across cultures
Central and Local Patrimonialism
How useful is the concept of patrimonialism to analyze state formation and political dynamics in postcolonial nation-states? Using Tunisia, Morocco, and Iraq during critical periods of state-building following the end of colonial rule, the author considers this question. The purpose of the article is to build on Max Weber by exploring how patrimonialism operates in kin-based social contexts where power on the basis of kinship ties is exerted not …
Gender in the Middle East
The scholarship on gender in the Middle East takes two objectives as its mandate: first, to dismantle the stereotype of passive and powerless Muslim women and, second, to challenge the notion that Islam shapes women's condition in the same way in all places. The urgency of this endeavor is heightened by the fact that gender has come to demarcate battle lines in geopolitical struggles since September 11, 2001, and to occupy a central place in the …
Equal or complementary? Women in the new Tunisian Constitution after the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring has inaugurated a new form of politics that represents a shift from a 'politics from above' to a 'politics from below' in regard to gender policy in Tunisia. Discourse surrounding state policy on gender, formerly the purview of elite groups, has recently been shaped and driven by popular organisations and associations. This article draws on Habermas to argue that the shift has been facilitated by the emergence of a new public sphe…
Gender, Religion, and State in the Middle East
This essay discusses the major trends in the study of gender, religion, and state in the Middle East from colonialism to the Arab Spring. Showing how the field started as a critique of colonial representations of women in the Middle East as passive and subordinate, it reviews briefly the foundational studies. It then indicates the major frameworks that scholars have used subsequently to show the complexities of the linkages between gender, religi…
Introduction
Limits of Empire
The article shows that the concept of patrimonialism is useful for the analysis not only of nation-states, but also of local and imperial power structures. Highlighting the limits of empires, we consider how local conditions shaped the strategies of colonial states in the process of empire building. We argue that the strength of local patrimonial networks before colonization, coupled with the sequencing of colonial conquests, either facilitated o…
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire
The “Power of Presence”
The 2004 reforms of Islamic family law in Morocco brought about a long-awaited expansion of women’s rights. The Moroccan women’s movement was a key player in the promulgation of the reforms. We highlight the role of professional women leaders in the movement and show how they developed political capital and the “power of presence” by combining (i) professional attainment, (ii) leadership in women’s organizations, and (iii) active participation or…
Local Solidarities
Coming as a surprise to most observers and following the self‐immolation of a street vendor in a remote town of central Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution of 2010–2011, the first uprising of the Arab Spring, has often been seen as a success story for digital communication through widespread use of social media. We suggest that this applied to the later phase of the protests in Tunisia but not to the initial phase, which occurred in local areas in im…
The Arab Spring Protests
In this photo essay, the authors examined over 3,500 photos of the early phase of the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, to capture the meanings that protestors brought to the fore
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)