Seeking Legitimacy. Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights
Abstract
This document presents a report on Seeking Legitimacy. Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights. This book explores some of the possible reasons women’s rights policies have been adopted in the Maghreb and Middle East: the intention of improving the quality of life for women and men and children; as a means of strengthening the economy and modernizing society; as a way to promote an image of their societies to the world as modernizing, while maintaining Islamic values; as a way of distinguishing themselves from the Islamist opposition, particularly extremists; as a way of garnering the political support and votes of women; as a response to popular pressures from women’s rights and civil society activists; to keep up with the requirements of international treaties like the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); and sometimes to appease donors. In some autocratic countries, leaders have sought to promote women’s rights as a way of extending patronage to women to foster loyalty and in some leftist-led countries they have promoted women’s
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Cambridge University Press
كلمات المفاتيح :
Women’s rights//Violence against women low// Extremism in Politics//Justice// Low of gender-based violence//Family low