Arab women’s activism and socio-political transformation: unfinished gendered revolutions

Imran, Muhammad; Chen, Yuee

doi:10.1080/13530194.2020.1723268

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“…This outcome suggests that women are not afraid of providing opinions online, even in an incongruent opinion climate. While the offline Arab religious and cultural establishments hinder the progress of Arab women (Imran & Chen, 2020; Koburtay & Abuhussein, 2021; Nordenson, 2017), women do find online media to be open and free channels for voicing their opinions and demands. Perhaps, Arab women can effectively use those online media to spread their ideas about women's rights and advancements, which would eventually spread to offline settings and cause a change to Arab societies.…”

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“…The cultures of both societies repress women's freedoms, and Islamic fundamentalists and the highly political Islamic leadership work to block the advancement of Arab women (Koburtay & Abuhussein, 2021). Women working in positions of authority, therefore, is an idea not easily accepted in these hierarchal and patriarchal societies (Imran & Chen, 2020). The constitutions of both countries are predicated on the idea that Islam is the religion of the state and that Islamic laws shall be a main source of legislation (Nordenson, 2017).…”

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Online Opinion Expression about Women Serving as Judges among University Students in Egypt and Kuwait: An Integrative Study of the Spiral of Silence and Uses and Gratifications

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This study integrates the Spiral of Silence and Uses and Gratifications theories to examine the willingness of university students to express on Twitter their opinions about a controversial issue, women serving as judges in Kuwait and Egypt. The analysis of a survey of 640 respondents showed that they used Twitter for information seeking, opinion formation, opinion reinforcement, and social utility in discussions, and for its democratizing capability. Democratization was the only motive to predict the expression of opinion online. When the Kuwaiti and Egyptian samples were analyzed separately, the democratization motive predicted opinion expression for the Kuwaiti students but not for the Egyptian students. Interaction effects between motivations and size of the respondent's social network on Twitter were found to predict the online expression of opinion. For example, the variable assessing the size of a respondent's social network interacted with information seeking motivation and also with opinion reinforcement to predict opinion expression online.

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Online Opinion Expression about Women Serving as Judges among University Students in Egypt and Kuwait: An Integrative Study of the Spiral of Silence and Uses and Gratifications

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“…Women who were against the exploitation of nature initiated this movement to protect their mother nature. Ecofeminism continued to develop, in the 1980s radical eco-feminists linked to nature and women with adjustable power; and encourages their exploitation for economical labor and resources, respectively (Imran and Chen 2020;Miles 2018). The cultural ecofeminist, the second school of thought, encourages the affable relationship between women and nature as nurturer and provider of food that society must value.…”

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Environment, Islam, and women: a study of eco-feminist environmental activism in Pakistan

Haq¹,

Imran

Ahmad³

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Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education

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This study aimed to discuss a better understanding of existing levels of Islamic environmental behavior in the perspective of eco-feminist environmental activism in Pakistan with the analysis of existing literature, media reports, NGOs’ environmental movements, and the environmental activists’ campaigns. Women, in the world generally and Pakistan particularly, have the most appropriate pro-environmental behavior concerning the cultural eco-feminist dimensions. This study will address the radical reasons for climate change as demographic changes, deforestation, pollution, and population growth along with their solutions from the Islamic perspective. Women as the ecofeminism activists must be the part of policy matters and their implementation structure as the first-hand companions of nature and social culture.

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The Meaning of Power for Female Arab Social Workers under the Youth Law

Allassad Alhuzail,

Mahajne,

Abo Saleh Khawaled

2023

The British Journal of Social Work

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Israel’s Youth Law (Care and Supervision), 1960 grants social workers power, authority and responsibility to intervene to protect minors at risk. But female social workers in Israel’s Arab population function in a traditional society in which women’s power is often labelled as negative and unfeminine, and power is primarily seen as indicating masculinity. Moreover, the law is perceived as symbolising the Israeli establishment, which the Arab population has experienced as ignoring its substantive problems, such as violence and crime. In this context, a qualitative study using a semi-structured interview was conducted among twenty female Arab social workers employed in Israeli welfare bureaus under the above-mentioned Youth Law, in an attempt to understand the meaning of power for them. The analysis of the findings revealed that some participants used different terminology from the others in describing the power granted them by the law and that this terminology affected how they fulfilled their role, the relation between them and the population they served and their relations with the service users.

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Arab women’s activism and socio-political transformation: unfinished gendered revolutions

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Online Opinion Expression about Women Serving as Judges among University Students in Egypt and Kuwait: An Integrative Study of the Spiral of Silence and Uses and Gratifications

Online Opinion Expression about Women Serving as Judges among University Students in Egypt and Kuwait: An Integrative Study of the Spiral of Silence and Uses and Gratifications

Environment, Islam, and women: a study of eco-feminist environmental activism in Pakistan

The Meaning of Power for Female Arab Social Workers under the Youth Law

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