TY - JOUR PY - 2009// TI - Women’s Rights in the Middle East: A Longitudinal Study of Kuwait1 JO - International political sociology A1 - Tétreault, Mary Ann A1 - Meyer, Katherine A1 - Rizzo, Helen SP - 218 EP - 237 VL - 3 IS - 2 N2 - This research identifies structural, cultural, and dynamic elements operating in the campaign for women’s rights in Kuwait. Using data from multiple sources, it focuses on the main characteristics and patterns of activism starting from the Gulf War of 1990–1991, paying particular attention to its growth and decline during the 1990s, an understudied period in the literature on women’s movements in the Middle East. Our findings underscore the embeddedness of the struggle for women’s rights in political development generally, and add to the understanding of social movements and their evolution in non-Western contexts.
LA - SN - 1749-5679 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00072.x ID - ref1 ER -