After Beijing: political liberalization and the women's movement in Jordan

Middle Eastern Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 83-102

  Lowrance, Sherry R ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATISATION; LIBERALISATION; POLITICAL CHANGE; WOMEN'S MOVEMENT;

JORDAN;

EID: 0031730472     PISSN: 00263206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00263209808701233     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Mervat F. Hatem, 'Political Liberalization, Gender, and the State', in Rex Brynen, Bahgat Korany and Paul Noble (eds.), Political Liberalization and Democratizatian in the Arab World (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995), p.187.
2. Moheb Zaki, Civil Society and Democratization in Egypt, 1981-1994 (Cairo: Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies, 1995), p.209.
3. Rex Brynen, 'Economic Crisis and Post-Rentier Democratization in the Arab World', Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol.25, No.1, March 1992.
4. Paul Jureidini and R.D. McLaurin, Jordan: The Impart of Social Change on the Role of the Tribes, CSIS Washington Paper 108 (New York: Praeger, 1984).
5. John Waterbury, 'Democracy Without Democrats?: The Potential for Political Liberalization in the Middle East', in Ghassan Salame (ed.), Democracy Without Democrats?: The Renewal of Politics in tlie Muslim World (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1994), p.25.
6. Interview with Asma Khader, President of the Jordanian Women's Union, 24 June 1996.
7. Interview with Mohammed Ali Wardam, Secretary General of the General Union of Voluntary Societies, 13 July 1996.
8. Interview with Asma Khader, President of the Jordanian Women's Union, 22 July 1996.
9. Al-Urdun al-Jadid Research Centre, Who's Who in the Jordanian Parliament 1993-1997. (Amman: Sinbad Publishing House, 1995); see especially the introduction to the volume for an excellent discussion of Jordanian lawmaking.
10. Interview with Toujun Faisal, first female deputy elected to Jordan's lower house, 8 Aug. 1996.
11. Suheir S. Tall, Muqaddimat Hawl Qadiyat al-Mar'a wa al-Haraka al-Nisa'iyya fi al-Urdun (Introduction to Women's Issues and the Women's Movement in Jordan) (Beirut: Arab Organization for Studies and Publishing, 1985), p. 122; Suhair S. Tall, 'Dirasa Hawl Owda' al-Mar'a al-Urduniya' (Study on the Situation of Jordanian Women) in al-Mar'a alArabiya:al-Haqi' al-Qanuni wa al-ljtima'i fi Thaman Duwal Arabiya (Tunis: Arab Institute of Human Rights, 1996), p.58.
12. Suheir S. Tall, Muqaddimat Hawl Qadiyat al-Mar'a wa al-Haraka al-Nisa'iyya fi al-Urdun (Introduction to Women's Issues and the Women's Movement in Jordan) (Beirut: Arab Organization for Studies and Publishing, 1985), p. 122; Suhair S. Tall, 'Dirasa Hawl Owda' al-Mar'a al-Urduniya' (Study on the Situation of Jordanian Women) in al-Mar'a alArabiya:al-Haqi' al-Qanuni wa al-ljtima'i fi Thaman Duwal Arabiya (Tunis: Arab Institute of Human Rights, 1996), p.58.
13. Tall, Muqaddimat, pp. 122, 130.
14. Interview with Emily Bisharat, founder and former president of the Jordanian Women's Union, 7 Aug. 1996 and unpublished historical documents provided by Ms. Bisharat.
15. Interview with Emily Bisharat, 10 Aug. 1996.
16. Interview with Da'ad Ma'ath, former Jordanian Women's Union President, 3 Aug. 1996.
17. Tall, Muquddimat, p.134.
18. Laurie Brand, 'In the Beginning was the State ... The Quest for Civil Society in Jordan', in Agustus Richard Norton (ed.), Civil Society in the Middle East (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995).
19. Tall, Muqaddimat, pp.153-8.
20. The Jordan Times, 10 July 1990.
21. The Queen Alia Fund (QAF) and the Noor al-Hussein Foundation (NHF) are two members of what has been termed 'RANGOs' (Royal NGOs) that have special status in Jordanian law giving them a tax-free status and designation as a non-governmental organization while maintaining close ties to the government. The chairpersons and members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by royal decree and they are integrated into governmental development planning by carrying out the government's development projects. (Interview with Awnial-Basheer, Director of the Queen Alia Fund, 24 June 1996; see also text of law 37 year 1985.)
22. The Jordan Times, 6 Nov. 1993.
23. The Jordan Times, 30 Nov. 1995.
24. Interview with Rand Hindawi, secretary general of the Jordanian National Forum for Women, 20 June 1996.
25. Interview with Zulaykha Abu-Reisheh, President of the Women's Studies Center and writer, 7 Aug. 1996. The same fact was mentioned by several other independent activists.
26. Interview with Farah Daghestani, Director of the Princess Basma Women's Resource Centre, 18 July 1996.
27. Interview with Da'ad Ma'ath, 3 Aug. 1996.
28. Interview with Zulaykha Abu-Reisheh, 7 Aug. 1996.
29. Interview with Emily Naffa', President of the Arab Women's Union in Jordan and longtime activist, 27 July 1996.
30. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Statistical Yearbook 1990-1994.
31. The Jordan Times, 10 July 1990, p.3.
32. The Star (Jordan's weekly English newspaper), 13 Nov. 1997.
33. Ibid.