Case Study II: Men’s Literacy Class Survey

Abstract

In the previous chapter, the potential for women’s empowerment in regard to literacy was shown to be very much influenced, as well as limited, by the support and attitudes of the families of the respective participants. Indeed, the restraining nature of patriarchal norms over women in Muslim-Arabic societies (fathers over daughters, husbands over wives, brothers over sisters and mothers-in-law over daughters-in-laws, etc.) has been well established in the research.