Organizing Women

With the creation of the modern nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa women have been and continue to be manipulated to represent a cultural ideal of perfect womanhood. This is often greatly at odds with the realities of women's lives and aspirations. However individual women through careful manipulation of gender relations often succeed in casting aside the culturally accepted bonds which diminish their lives.Even so women in groups are deemed unacceptable unless they conform to stat...See More