"Gender Norms in the Muslim Middle East"

Valerie J. Hoffman, ed.

"Gender Norms in the Muslim Middle East"

Making the New Middle East: Politics, Culture, and Human Rights

“This chapter review gender in the Middle East from a number of perspectives: Western and Muslim discourses about Muslim women, women’s rights in traditional interpretations of Islamic law, other cultural norms that impact women’s status, conservative and revisionist interpretations of women’s rights in Islamic law, legal reforms affecting women’s rights in the last century, Islamic feminism, hypermasculinity in Middle Eastern culture, attitudes toward homosexuality and transgender in the Middle East, and new trends in gender relations making an appearance in the region.”

2019