Women's Rights in Authoritarian Egypt

ISBN: 9781784532451 出版年：2016 页码：220 Hiam Elgousi Bloomsbury Publishing

During the uprisings of late 2010 and 2011 which took place across the Middle East and North Africa, women made up an importacrowds protesting. Women's rights were central to the demands made. However, despite this, in the ensuing social and political struggles, these rights have not progressthe situation under previous governments. Hiam El-Gousian examination of the status of women under Egypt's various authoritarian regimes. In exploring tby religious scholars in helping to define women's status in society, she focuses on personal status laws and health rights. In examining the issue of women's rights El-Gousi begins with an account of feminism in Egypt: the centre of feminist thought in the Middend of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Based on extensive research in the country, especially at grassroots level, El-Gousi goes on to analyse the constitutional and legislative rulings which have affected the lives and rights of Egyptian women. This boa vital primary resource for those studying feminism in the wider Middle East and North Africa.