Arab spring or spring without flowers? -- Women's rights and democracy in the MENA area -- Women's rights in the Tunisian constitution -- Women's rights in the Egyptian constitution -- Women's rights in the constitutional reform in Yemen
Summary
When protests erupted across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2011, the general view was that these events would bring forward the regeneration of democracy. They were also meant to represent the Spring of women's fight for freedom and equality. As time passed, it became clear that the process of social and political changes necessary to tackle female issues would be a long one. The ""Thahiris"" and their equivalents did not prevail and, in the absence, or weakness, of political institutions, Islamic parties emerged. The urgent issue then became how to reconcile the demands of women
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 19, 2019)
