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Women in Civil Society

The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAE

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  • © 2008

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  1. Wanda Krause
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Women in Civil Society: Key Issues in the Middle East

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 1-26

  3. Civil Society and Rentierism? Challenges to the UAE Woman

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 27-46

  4. Rentier Governmentality: Activism in UAE Women’s Organizations and Clubs

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 47-90

  5. Women and Islamist Politics: Activism in Islamic-Oriented Associations

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 91-142

  6. Women’s Activism through Networking

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 143-188

  7. Women in Civil Society: Prospects for the UAE

    • Wanda Krause
    Pages 189-203

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 205-264
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Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism and Networking in the UAE investigates how women in an Arab Gulf country prove to play a key role in how civil society takes shape with and against one another through case studies on women in state-run organizations, Islamic organizations, and networks.

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'Krause has provided an authoritative overview of the present condition of civil society in the UAE. This book is packed with detail and considers expertly both the obstacles and the faint glimmers of hope'

-Dr. Christopher Davidson, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Durham University, UK

About the author

Wanda Krause is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She holds a PhD in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter.

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