Negotiating development in Muslim societies

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Alami M'Chichi Houria

La volonté du gouvernement marocain, en 1999, dʹintégrer les femmes au développement a suscité de nombreux questionnements entre modernistes et islamistes. Selon H. Alami MʹChichi (professeur de science politique à la faculté de droit de Casablanca), lʹintroduction de lʹanalyse du genre dans le domaine politique permet, dʹune part de mettre à nu des rapports socialement et historiquement construits, responsables de nombreuses inégalités entre les sexes, et, dʹautre part de révéler des divergences entre modernistes et islamistes, mais aussi des confusions partagées sur la place de la femme dans la société marocaine.

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Marilyn Waring

In a world where half the population is likely to be excluded from international human rights guarantees, where unpaid work is given no economic value, where parliamentary process denies women a voice - in such a world truths masquerade as lies. Marilyn Waring writes, in these three essays, of the pretences that create and sustain inequality. Three Masquerades identifies some central myths that promote inequality, and explodes them with an accuracy that is at once devastating and humane.

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Angie Y. Chung

"Drawing on two case studies, the author identifies diverse ways in which community-based organizations negotiate their political agendas and mainstream ties within the traditional ethnic power structures. One organization promotes middle-class ethnic goals through accommodation to immigrant leaders, while the other emphasizes social justice through alliances with outside interest groups. Both cases challenge the traditional assumption that assimilation undermines ethnicity as a meaningful framework for political identity and solidarity in immigrant groups. Legacies of Struggle reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans." -- Publisher's description.

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Ivo H. Daalder

"For over three years, Washington responded to the war in Bosnia by handing the problem off to the Europeans to resolve and substituting high-minded rhetoric for concerted action. Then, in the summer of 1995, the Clinton administration suddenly shifted course, deciding to take on the leadership role necessary to end the war.". "In this book, Ivo H. Daalder - who coordinated U.S. policy on Bosnia for the National Security Council from 1995 through 1996 - examines why and how Washington finally took on the role it had for so long declined to embrace. Drawing on numerous interviews with key participants in the process, as well as recollections of his own efforts, Daalder shows how the policy to end the war took shape."--BOOK JACKET.