POL 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ali Abdullah Saleh, Democratic Constitutional Rally, Hosni Mubarak
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The context: young age, forced into marriage, and so on. most basic of rights, such as the right to drive, or walk the streets, or choose. Across the middle east and north africa, women are still struggling for the one(cid:495)s clothing, or vote without proof of education. Women are stoned for adultery, punished for their own rape, (cid:498)de-sexed(cid:499) at a. What is the likelihood that they will be respected as a necessary voice in the. They have sometimes (rarely) held prominent political positions. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, women sometimes held social affairs and cultural ministries in egypt, syria, jordan, and algeria. Even as women gained access in latin american and the caribbean and (as. The regional context little or not windows of opportunity for women. Post 2000 there has been some revolutionary activity in the regions. repressive to women, and so on. First our authors remind us the region is not all fundamentalist, terrorist,