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The year 2011 will forever be known as the year of mass protests for regime change and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Opinions on causes and outcomes have focused on the role of young people, the demands of "the Arab street," and the possible transition to a liberal, Islamist, or coalition type of governance. Middle East specialists have long been aware of the problems of authoritarian regimes, widening inequalities, high rates of youth unemployment, deteriorating infrastructure and public services, and rising prices attenuated only by subsidies. But something has been missing from recent discussions and analyses. Let us pose it in the form of a number of (socialist-feminist) questions. We have seen that "the Arab street" is not exclusively masculine, but what kind of democratic governance can women's rights groups expect? To what extent will Tunisian women shape the democratic transition and the building of new institutions? In Egypt, will an outcome be—to use a phrase coined by East European feminists in the early 1990s—a "male democracy"? How can a democratic transition benefit working women and the poor?

In the spring of 2011 citizens in one Arab country after another rose in defiance of authoritarian regimes to demand political change. It appeared that the region had caught up with the "third wave" of democratization — perhaps even ushering in a fourth one — and would embark on successful democratic transitions. After all, polls since 2000 had shown strong support for democracy in almost all Arab countries (Moaddel, 2007). The road since then, however, has been rocky with quite different trajectories that a burgeoning body of literature has analyzed. Less researched has been the gendered nature of the uprisings, that is, how gender relations and women's mobilizations have shaped these trajectories, as well as how women and their rights have been affected.

Introduction and overview: globalization, social movements, and contemporary politics -- Globalization, its discontents, and collective action -- Globalization and social movements: whither democracy? -- Islamist movements -- Feminism on a world scale -- The global justice movement -- Populisms in the world-system -- Conclusions and prognostication.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- PART ONE Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Women and Identity Politics in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective -- 2 The Creation of the World We Know: The World-Economy and the Re-creation of Gendered Identities -- 3 The Ideal Woman and the Ideal Society: Control and Autonomy in the Construction of Identity -- 4 Gender as an Ethno-Marker: Rape, War, and Identity Politics in the Former Yugoslavia -- 5 Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Woman Question in Iran -- PART TWO Country Case Studies -- 6 Politics, Islam, and Women in Kano, Northern Nigeria -- 7 Gender, Religious Identity, and Political Mobilization in Sudan -- 8 Feminism and Muslim Fundamentalism: The Tunisian and Algerian Cases -- 9 The Social Representation of Women in Algeria's Islamist Movement -- 10 Gender Activism: Feminists and Islamists in Egypt -- 11 Identity Politics and Women: "Fundamentalism" and Women in Pakistan -- 12 Moving Away from a Secular Vision? Women, Nation, and the Cultural Construction of Hindu India -- 13 Identity Politics and the Contemporary Indian Feminist Movement -- 14 Women and Fundamentalism: The Case of Turkey -- 15 Halakha, Zionism, and Gender: The Case of Gush Emunim -- 16 The Role, Place, and Power of Middle-Class Women in the Islamic Republic -- 17 Paradoxical Politics: Gender Politics Among Newly Orthodox Jewish Women in the United States -- 18 Women of the New Right in the United States: Family, Feminism, and Politics -- PART THREE Dilemmas and Strategies -- 19 The Preferential Symbol for Islamic Identity: Women in Muslim Personal Laws -- 20 Identity Politics and Women's Ethnicity.

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational social movements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization has engendered the spread of neoliberal capitalism across the world, but it also has engendered opposition and collective action.

Globalizing women : an introduction and overview -- Globalization and its discontents : capitalist development, political movements, and gender -- Female labor, global inequalities, and feminist responses -- The women's movement and its organizations : discourses, structures, resources -- From structural adjustment to the global trade agenda : DAWN, WIDE, WEDO -- Feminists vs. fundamentalists : WLUML and SIGI -- The travails of transnational feminist organizing : AWMR -- The spectre that haunts the global economy? : the challenge of global feminism