Quantum mechanics

Gender relations

Gender studies

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Middle East

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Democracy

Political economy

Sociology

Social movement

Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society

Applying Walby’s model of gender regime, with some modifications, to the Middle East and North Africa, I highlight the importance of the family as an institutional domain, replace the ideal types of social-democratic and neoliberal public gender regimes with neopatriarchal and conservative-corporatist, and elucidate feminist organizing and mobilizing as a key driver in the transition from one public gender regime to another in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. The article contributes to theory-building on (varieties of) gender regimes by underscoring (sub)regional specificities across the capitalist world-system’s economic zones and emphasizing the role of feminist activism.

Gender Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa: The Power of Feminist Movements