2013
DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2013.788275
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“Benevolent Patriarchy”: Palestinian Women between “Ideal” and “Reality”

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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.…”
Section: Theoretical Framework: the Family The State And Rightful Resistancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
Section: Theoretical Framework: the Family The State And Rightful Resistancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…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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confidence: 96%