Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World

ISBN-13: 9781137398543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 300 str.

Adel Abadeer

Opis

The marginalization of women can often be linked to certain embedded informal norms, especially in collectivist communities in developing countries. Understanding the roots and processes of marginalizing women is vital for designing and proposing effective interventions against many forms of gender discrimination in these societies. In Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World, Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes of conduct, customary laws, and traditions into the structure of formal rules (e.g., polity, judiciary, law, and the enforcement of law), which in turn influence the governance of the transactions. He utilizes both the new institutional economic analysis and the capability approach, which opens up a genuinely interdisciplinary analysis involving economics, political science, religion, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. In addition, Abadeer examines how these norms influence the behaviors of women, men, collectivist units, and society overall, and how those behaviors affect their well-being.

Recenzje

"Adel SZ Abadeer's interdisciplinary analysis in Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World provides a succinct framework for analyzing the normative structure of gender discrimination as well as its material impact on the status and well-being of women in primarily collectivist societies. This book balances out considerations of cultural relativism, universal human rights, and statistical research through an interdisciplinary lens, which provides a useful methodology for examining gender discrimination in other cultural contexts." (Lori Bable, Human Rights Review, Vol. 17, 2016)

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
PART II: ANALYSIS OF NORMS AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION
2. Institutions and Gender Discrimination
3. Cultural Relativism and Gender-Discriminating Norms
4. The Capability Approach and Gender Discrimination
5. Norms in Collectivist versus Individualist Societies
6. Metanorms and Gender Discrimination
7. Cognitive Dissonance and Gender Discrimination
8. Norms, Status, and Individualist Goods
9. Measuring Gender Discrimination
PART III: GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE ARAB WORLD
10. Norms and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
11. Norms and Violence Against Women
12. Norms and Women's Economic Rights
13. Norms and Women's Political and Legal Rights
PART IV: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
14. Summary and Conclusion

O autorze

Adel SZ Abadeer is Professor of Economics at Calvin College, USA.