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Norms and Gender Discrimination in the Arab World

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  1. Adel S Z Abadeer
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 3-24

  3. Analysis of Norms and Gender Discrimination

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Institutions and Gender Discrimination

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 27-52

    3. Cultural Relativism and Gender-Discriminating Norms

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 53-70

    4. The Capability Approach and Gender Discrimination

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      Pages 71-83

    5. Norms in Collectivist versus Individualist Societies

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      Pages 85-101

    6. Metanorms and Gender Discrimination

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      Pages 103-113

    7. Cognitive Dissonance and Gender Discrimination

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      Pages 115-125

    8. Norms, Status, and Individualist Goods

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 127-148

    9. Measuring Gender Discrimination

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      Pages 149-166

  4. Gender Discrimination in the Arab World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Norms and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 169-199

    3. Norms and Gender Violence

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 201-226

    4. Norms and Women’s Economic Rights

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 227-240

    5. Norms and Women’s Political and Legal Rights

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 241-252

  5. Summary and Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Summary and Conclusion

      • Adel S Z Abadeer
      Pages 255-260

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-300
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About this book

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.

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“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)

About the author

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

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