Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's Rights

by Aili Mari Tripp

Book Overview

Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries. Based on extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108442846
• ISBN13: 9781108442848
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 6.2"