CMI Insight
| 2013
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight vol. 2013 no. 1) 4 p.
How to cite this publication:
Liv Tønnessen (2013). Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2013:1)
Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab Spring” would bring not just democratization, but greater gender equality. Rather than safeguarding women’s equal rights, these revolutions have so far reinforced patriarchy in many states rocked by the uprisings. But Arab women are fighting back.
Liv Tønnessen
Director of Center on Law and Social Transformation and Senior Researcher
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