power and woman

Tebaa 4th volume
 

This volume of Tebaa tackles a critical topic related to women’s relations to official powers; political, legitimistic and executive powers. In addition to how these powers – all of them or some – contribute to the support of discrimination against women. In the context of exposure to some of these powers, the paper “Justice Opens its Eyes” compares the adultery verdicts in the Islamic Sharia and in the Egyptian law. There is a sharp contrast between the Sharia verdicts and the Egyptian law verdicts. In the Sharia verdicts of adultery men and women are equal. However, the Egyptian law is completely prejudice to men, and is in contradiction with Sharia verdicts, even though the Islamic Sharia claims to be the source of the laws.
 
The volume also includes other research about laws that distinguish differences in outcomes between men and women. This research illustrates how the law discriminates against women. Also the volume focuses on legitimistic power represented in the parliaments, this is through the abstract of the book “women in elected parliaments” which contains a lot of papers each tackles the system of shares (dedicated seats for women in the parliaments).

The paper “The Feminist Movement as a Political One” presents another form of conflict for women. This conflict deals with the history of the political movement. With the political powers along the history of the movement. In this frame of the relation between feminism and power, another research comes to indicate another form of women’s issue of marginalization, through focusing on the patriotic and political issues and delaying the feminist demands until another time. Other research on the topic of women and their relations to power states the issue of marginalizing women by focusing on patriotic and political issues. These issues delay the feminist demands. The book “Globalization, Gender and Religion” points out that power does not consider it enough to marginalize women’s issues. Besides, the volume involves a set of researches each presents the situation of religious and governmental power in many Catholic and Islamic countries of the decisions of Beijing conference. The book “women in front of women” presents an image of the active powers in the Egyptian society of the state power and the Islamic groups’ power, in addition to civil associations which based on secular grounds.

If the previous researches shed light on certain patterns of power practices in certain places, the research of “post feminism” comes to represent a theory which tends to destroy the central power in its marginalized place, since the more freedom allowed by the situation on the margin.
   

Other Links

Identity and feminism - Tebaa 1st volume

Woman and resistance - Tebaa 2nd volume

Woman and cultural discourses - Tebaa 3rd volume

Women and the Private Atmosphere - Tebaa 5th volume

The Egyptian Women’s Movement - Tebaa 6th volume

Women and  Education - Tebaa 9th volume

Women and democracy - Tebaa 11th volume

Women and Science - Tebaa 12th volume