Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   2. Introduction

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3. Analysis of Norms and Gender Discrimination

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   2. Institutions and Gender Discrimination

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   3. Cultural Relativism and Gender-Discriminating Norms

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   4. The Capability Approach and Gender Discrimination

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   5. Norms in Collectivist versus Individualist Societies

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   6. Metanorms and Gender Discrimination

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   7. Cognitive Dissonance and Gender Discrimination

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   8. Norms, Status, and Individualist Goods

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   9. Measuring Gender Discrimination

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4. Gender Discrimination in the Arab World

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   2. Norms and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

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      Pages 169-199

   3. Norms and Gender Violence

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   4. Norms and Women’s Economic Rights

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   5. Norms and Women’s Political and Legal Rights

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5. Summary and Conclusion

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   2. Summary and Conclusion

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6. Back Matter

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Abadeer incorporates informal norms such as religion, mores, myths, taboos, codes-of-conduct, customary laws, and traditions, into the structure of formal rules (e.g., polity, judiciary, laws, and the enforcement of law), which in turn influence the governance of the transactions.

• Gender
• gender discrimination
• Arab
• Arab world
• norms
• sacred norms
• informal institutions
• formal institutions
• formal rules
• feminism
• cultural feminism
• cultural relativism
• enculturation
• acculturation
• human rights
• capability
• functioning
• capability approach
• CEDAW
• UIDHR
• gender
• Tradition
• women

“Adel SZ Abadeer’s interdisciplinary analysis in Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World provides a succinct framework for analyzing the normative structure of gender discrimination as well as its material impact on the status and well-being of women in primarily collectivist societies. This book balances out considerations of cultural relativism, universal human rights, and statistical research through an interdisciplinary lens, which provides a useful methodology for examining gender discrimination in other cultural contexts.” (Lori Bable, Human Rights Review, Vol. 17, 2016)

Adel SZ Abadeer is Professor of Economics at Calvin College, USA.

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