The First Lady Phenomenon

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5823091
AutoresMayssoun Sukarieh (0000-0001-6049-5998, John Brown University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume35
Fascículo3
Páginas575-587
Data de publicação2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/1089201x-3426421
OpenAlexW2258928566
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas38

Drawing on analysis of different sources-media analysis, policy documents, interviews, and participant observation-this article analyzes the representation of Queen Rania of Jordan and the First Lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, and their work in civil society. An analysis of Rania and Assad helps illustrate the ways in which gender roles and representations, in the Arab and Muslim world as elsewhere, are always multiple and contradictory, varying across lines of social class and intimately connected to and shaped by the ever changing political and ideological projects of states and elites. As such, there is a need, when addressing gender politics in the Arab and Muslim world, to move beyond simple stances of contesting or inverting single kinds of gender representations (whether "traditional" or "modern") and instead move toward constructing grounded analyses of how constellations of gender roles and representations are constructed and negotiated within the context of regional and global political economy

Constellation · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Geography · Ideology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Representation · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law