Islam and the Extension of Citizenship Rights to Women in Kuwait

Meyer, Katherine; Rizzo, Helen; Ali, Yousef

doi:10.2307/1388033

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“…For example, Protestantism promotes nonhierarchical religious practices and more readily accepts women as religious leaders compared with Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. And Islamic law is typically interpreted in a manner that constrains the activities of women [25,26].…”

Section: Religious Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges and Opportunities of Women Political Participation in Ethiopia

Kassa¹

2015

J Glob Econ

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Section: Religious Factorsmentioning

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Challenges and Opportunities of Women Political Participation in Ethiopia

Kassa¹

2015

J Glob Econ

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“…The position of women in Muslim-majority countries is a highly debated topic (Meyer, Rizzo, & Ali, 1998). As this article shows, Arabs are less likely to consider gender equality an essential characteristic of democracy than are people living in free Western democracies.…”

Section: What Can We Tell About the Process Of Democratization In Thementioning

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Arabs Want Democracy, but What Kind?

Regt¹

2013

AASoci

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In recent times, Arabs have shown the world that they are ready for additional democratic reforms. We must nevertheless question what democracy means to them. How do they think about the role of religious leaders in democracy? Does democracy imply extending the rights of women? How do Arabs see the connection between democracy and a prosperous economy? Answers to these and similar questions are important in order to interpret the high levels of support for democracy that are being observed in the Arab world, as well as the possible outcomes of the Arab spring. It is also important to examine whether Arabs have a common understanding of democracy or whether they disagree on the form that democracy should take. Wide variations in the meaning of democracy could retard the process of democratization. In this article, public opinion data from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Morocco are used to develop a detailed image of what democracy means to Arabs.

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“…There is a distinction between the ideal, pristine Islam, and the traditional, practiced Islam. In a study by Meyer et al (1998), which explored the compatibility of Islam with the extension of women"s rights in Kuwait, it was found that participants who identified with Islamic orthodoxy supported women"s rights.…”

Section: Religion and The Roles Of Womenmentioning

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Chronic low back pain and the construction of illness identities in women from Kuwait

Abdal¹

2016

Manual Therapy

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Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has been identified as a prominent health problem and a major cause of disability. Recent research has focussed on providing a better understanding of subjective experiences of people with CLBP; however, emphasis continues to be geared towards the physical restrictions associated with CLBP. There is a scarcity of literature that considers the relation between self and identity, and people"s experiences with CLBP. Moreover, studies have concentrated on the experiences of people in Western contexts; to date, no studies have been carried out in Middle Eastern sociocultural contexts including Kuwait. Finally, there is a deficiency of studies that focus on the particularity of the experiences of women with CLBP and the impact on identity. This is the first study that investigates how women with CLBP construct illness identities in Kuwait.This study adopted a constructivist grounded theory methodology using dimensional analysis. In line with the grounded theory (GT) approach, data collection and analysis took place concurrently. A longitudinal study design was adopted. Semi-structured interviews were used to investigate women"s perspectives on their experiences with CLBP in relation to their socio-political and cultural context. Eleven women were recruited from three musculoskeletal outpatient clinics in Kuwait. Initially, five women were purposively sampled. A follow up interview was conducted with four of those women one year after the initial interview to investigate any changes in their experiences. Subsequently, six women were theoretically sampled with the aim of comparing the influence of age, educational level, marital status, socioeconomic status and time on women"s illness experiences.The findings of this study offer the first explanatory theory of the construction of illness identities of women with CLBP in Kuwait. Women"s identities can be seen as part of a continuum from oppressed at one end to liberated at the other. Salience of oppressed identities was associated with periods of exacerbation of CLBP and passive coping behaviours. Appearance of liberated identities was accompanied with episodes of remission of CLBP and active coping approaches. Changes in women"s social circumstances, thoughts and feelings over time were related to changes in the identities they portrayed, and changes in their manifestation of CLBP and illness experiences. The substantive theory developed through this study has implications for clinical practice, education and research, and may inform physiotherapy professional development activities in Kuwait.

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Islam and the Extension of Citizenship Rights to Women in Kuwait

Cited by 74 publications

References 15 publications

Challenges and Opportunities of Women Political Participation in Ethiopia

Challenges and Opportunities of Women Political Participation in Ethiopia

Arabs Want Democracy, but What Kind?

Chronic low back pain and the construction of illness identities in women from Kuwait

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