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Women in Civil Society: Key Issues in the Middle East

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This book investigates how indigenous forms of interaction and participation can assist in reaching a broader conception of civil society and also addresses inadequacies and biases in the application of the civil society concept. It studies the participation of women as a major sector of the population that until recently has remained unaccounted for in mainstream political science. In applying a civil society framework focused on UAE women, the book seeks to incorporate a gendered perspective of marginalized groups essential to the comprehensive understanding of politics and change. Thus, the question: Does UAE women’s activism play a significant role in the development of civil society? If so, what does this mean for the civil society concept in explaining this process?

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Krause, W. (2008). Women in Civil Society: Key Issues in the Middle East. In: Women in Civil Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615755_1

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