Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T01:29:43.125Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. By Mounira M. Charrad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 388p. $50.00 cloth, $22.00 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Shiva Balaghi
Affiliation:
New York University

Extract

The politics of gender relations, as a critical element in the construction of and resistance to power in the Age of Empire, has been the focus of a range of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Middle East, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Colonial officials such as Lord Cromer (in Egypt) and Lord Curzon (in India) often relied on discussions of the subjugated status of “native” women to articulate the moral imperative of the colonizer's “civilizing mission.” Meanwhile, the intersection of gender and power was a key element in the formation of anticolonial nationalist movements and in the process of state building throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mounira M. Charrad's book makes a significant contribution to this growing body of literature.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
2003 by the American Political Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)