Double-Edged Politics on Women’s Rights in the MENA Region

Hanane Darhour is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Languages, Arts and Human Sciences, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. She is the author of Implementation of Electoral Gender Quotas: Evidence from the 2002 Moroccan Elections (2012).Drude Dahlerup is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Honorary Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has published extensively on gender and politics, gender quota systems, the history of women’s movements, and theories of feminism, including Has Democracy Failed Women? (2018).

• 1. Introduction: The Arab Uprisings and the Rights of Women (Drude DAHLERUP and Hanane DARHOUR).- Part I: Women’s Rights, Feminism and Islamism.- 2. The Center: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Women’s Rights in Pre- and Post-Arab Spring North Africa (Fatima SADIQI).- 3. Whose Gender Equality? On the Boundaries of Islam and Feminism in the MENA Region (Ilyass BOUZGHAIA).- Part II: Post-Spring Dynamics and Feminist Norm Diffusion.- 4. Cultural Change in North Africa: the Interaction Effect of Women’s Empowerment and Democratization (Ginger FEATHER).- 5. Changing Tides? On How Popular Support for Feminism increased after the Arab Spring (Saskia GLAS and Niels SPIERINGS).- Part III: Women’s Activism and the Reconfigured State.- 6. Women’s Activism in North Africa in Post Arab Spring (Moha ENNAJI).- 7. Political Opportunities for Islamist Women in Morocco and Egypt (Anwar MHAJNE).- 8. Contrasting Women’s Rights in the Maghreb and the Middle East Constitutions (Aili Mari TRIPP).- Part IV: Empowered or Sidelined? On Women’s Political Representation and Influence.- 9. Examining Female Membership and Leadership of Legislative Committees in Jordan (Marwa SHALABY and Laila ELIMAM).- 10. Empowering young women? Gender and youth quotas in Tunisia (Jana BELSCHNER).- 11. Whose Empowerment? Gender Quota Reform Mechanisms and De-democratization in Morocco (Hanane DARHOUR).