“Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”

Roald, Anne Sofie

doi:10.1080/09596410.2013.788275

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“…Fatherhood, Inhorn argues, is a masculine ideal in the Middle East 25 , and Roald has observed that the persistent ideal of the "good" Muslim man, "being responsible for taking care of his family in a gallant, loving and self-sacrificing manner" has influenced laws in Muslim-majority countries. 26 Notions of the logic of a masculine role as protector are hence prevalent not only in private relations, but also transmissible to that between the state and citizens. The state then assumes the role of the "benevolent patriarch" -a loving protector who ensures protection and (appropriate) rights.…”

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Fighting for the right to play: women’s football and regime-loyal resistance in Saudi Arabia

Lysa

2020

Third World Quarterly

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This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship on women and social change in Saudi Arabia through the case of female football players in Riyadh. Officially, there has been no women's football in the Kingdom, but under the surface women have been playing for more than a decade. The women are actively promoting and engaging in change and women's opportunities to practice sport by building organization, creating awareness and negotiating norms and regulations. They are not in opposition to the regime, but supportive of reforms in favour of increased rights for women, while seeing conservative elements in the society as their opponents and the royal family as their allies. They are thus engaging in what O'Brian and Li has termed "rightful resistance" by deploying the language of the rulers to express their perspectives and aims, and are engaged in a three party game with the rulers and conservatives, where divisions within the state and elite allies matter greatly.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: the Family The State And Rightful Resistancementioning

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Fighting for the right to play: women’s football and regime-loyal resistance in Saudi Arabia

Lysa

2020

Third World Quarterly

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“…The association between the household and murder and adultery problematizes the construction of the household as a haven that shields those within its walls from harm. The construction of the household as a subjective space of violence and adultery undermines the harmonious order of the Palestinian domestic spheres where wives subsume their identities and voices to those of their husbands (Roald 2013). While Alice's voicing and acting on her sexual desires can be considered as a feminist agenda, many of my female students assert that Arden of Faversham undermines the Palestinian patriarchal system within the claustrophobic domestic spheres.…”

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The Containment of Female Linguistic, Spatial, and Sexual Transgression inArden of Faversham: A Contemporary Palestinian Reading

Hamamra

2018

Comparative Literature: East & West

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Arden of Faversham (1592) endorses the association between female speech and lasciviousness and dislocates the link between silence and chastity in the figure of Alice. This domestic tragedy shows that the subversion of the patriarchal authority enacted by Alice and her accomplices are contained as an ultimate manifestation of the masculine status quo. Following the critical line of presentism, I argue that Alice's appropriation of the domestic sphere as a subjective space of murder and adultery undermines the Palestinian representation of the house as a nurturing place of order and harmony and complicates the Palestinian, nationalist discourse that figures out the domestic sphere as a sacred nationhood. In both the fictional world of Arden and contemporary Palestine, gossip renders the household subject to the gaze, tongue, and judgment of the public. The containment of Alice's transgression eclipses the possibility of a feminist emancipation from patriarchal authority in contemporary Palestine.

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Satellitization of Arab Media: Perceptions of Changes in Gender Relations

Roald

2016

CyberOrient

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This article explores how students living in East Amman in Jordan perceive a link between global television entertainment and social changes, particularly changes in gender relations. The study relies on a questionnaire distributed among university students in Amman in 2009 and 2010 with 946 Muslim respondents, and focus group discussions and individual interviews with 44 Muslim students living in East Amman in 2013. The theoretical framework for the discussion is cultivation theory, moral panic, and audience reception. The main conclusion from this study is that many students believe that watching television makes viewers see ‘reality’ in view of TV programs. Another conclusion is that students seem to tailor their use of television according to their own needs. A third conclusion is that many students experience moral panic and see global television as an attack on cultural values. Other students, however, welcome global television's transmission of what they consider new liberal ideas. The students’ experience is that television entertainment products such as Turkish and American films and series, have an actual impact on social changes linked to gender relations in the East Amman society. The impact of global TV on local society is envisioned as being either “good” or “bad”.

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“Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Fighting for the right to play: women’s football and regime-loyal resistance in Saudi Arabia

Fighting for the right to play: women’s football and regime-loyal resistance in Saudi Arabia

The Containment of Female Linguistic, Spatial, and Sexual Transgression inArden of Faversham: A Contemporary Palestinian Reading

Satellitization of Arab Media: Perceptions of Changes in Gender Relations

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