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... obtain social services or learn English, but to also build community, connection, and empowerment in the face of displacement, isolation, and racism. At AWC, women engage in dialogues about their life struggles and exchange genuine care and love while building a sense of mutual confidentiality, trust...

... It is important from the outset to establish a work- ing definition of empowerment in assessing legal, social, and economic change for women in Morocco. Some see economic gain as a primary route to women’s empower- ment. The popularity of micro-credit programs targeted at women is an outgrowth...

... in order to ascend. In the time of the Temple, women were more connected to spirituality and the body in a positive and empowering way. By challenging rabbinic authority and taking legal decisions into their own hands, Third Temple activists believe that they facilitate women’s spiritual empowerment...

... experiences of British nurses in Mandate Palestine and scrutinizes their contested status. As women, as British, as medical practitioners, and specifically as nurses, British nurses present a singular type of local-level imperial agent who confronted multiple challenges to their identities. Empowered...

... and passionate, and cultivates an air of hope and optimism. To fight ostracism by public institutions and to attain their academic rights, the respondents use their empowering feelings, hope, and commitment against patriarchal and homophobic state forces. References Abbas Tahir , and Zalta Anja...

... and provides no means of class mobility, for the other group weaving is an empowering tool and a resource for gaining economic and cultural capital. Each group of research participants shows a specific form of agency and multiple experiences of subjecthood embedded in its weaving practices...

...) and Abir Hamdar ( 2014 , 86) characterize Fatima as a “madwoman” driven to dementia by her oppressive environment; to Hamdar, she is a “harrowing portrait of mental degeneration” (86). Though al-Shammari ( 2014 , 256) and Hamdar ( 2014 , 89) see brief moments of empowerment in Fatima’s definitive...

... of them that being part of this project was fun and also educational. They felt that they were contributing to causes they are invested in but hadn’t yet had the chance to contribute to as much as they wanted. It was an empowering experience for all of us. I’d like to end by quoting Bodoor, whom I had...

..., and human rights. Situated in global health debates, the books share a positive view of IVF as a medical technology that empowers women. Global IVF is controversial because it touches key issues in global feminism, global health equity, global health governance, and human rights. Marcia C. Inhorn’s...

... as unconscious. In this part Metinsoy challenges these assumptions in a very empowering way and underlines that the working class had the experience to determine the social injustice they were facing. The part provides direct labor struggle cases that tended to negotiate informal, collective, and individual...

... concerns. She identifi es a series of key issues—representation, democratization, participation—that frame dis- cussions of media’s empowering potential. Th e theme linking diverse contributions is clearly articulated: how media in diff erent times and places have expanded or restricted women’s...

... case, he demonstrates how media technologies enabled positive changes and women’s empowerment. The section on how the Arab uprisings empowered women and showed more assertive demands for political equality relies heavily on data gathered from online activist groups. When we link the issue...

... ) and to empower women to use the best means available to rid themselves of submission and abuse despite obstacles. Topics on our agenda for the next three issues are women’s bodies and sexual violence against young girls, women and consumerism, and women in middle management. These issues are important...

..., the feminist agendas remain emphatic on the role of education in empowering women. Several factors affect educa- tion as a means of liberation for women. First, consideration should be given to the concept of “empowerment” itself, which is ridden with complexities and needs careful examination...

... with designers, illustrators, and artists, included the slogan “Do Not Cross the Line, Do Not Touch My Belly,” critiquing society’s fascination with pregnant women’s bodies. Everybody feels empowered to tell a pregnant woman what she should do, tell her how she should behave, and even touch her, as if her body...

... analysis, part ethnography, and part legal argu- ment, it addresses the origin, process, and ordinary women’s interpreta- tion of Iran’s unequal yet empowering gender laws. In explaining these issues, Osanloo also seeks to unravel the discourse of right-wing U.S. policy pundits, such as Richard Perle...

... empowerment. The women’s movement was confronted with suppression from the moment the Islamic government assumed power; however, it developed over time despite decades of sometimes intense repression, finally peaking in the revolutionary movement of 2022. The revolutionary movement of 2022 is rooted...

.... Afterward I experienced an increasing disjuncture between my own conception of hijab as empowering and a public perception of hijab both as oppressive and as signifying alignment with conservative or extreme forms of Islam. Other hijab-wearing women in the United States may have felt similar disjunctures...

... that is why policymakers consider the ability to earn money a key factor for empowering disadvantaged Soheila Alirezanejad  mn  113 layers of communities, especially rural women. Microfinancing theories run in line with such policies, with the objective...

... the husband of Mahtab’s best friend, who had warned Mahtab about her husband’s infidelity, is actually the unfaithful spouse. While men’s jealousy leads to tragic consequences, jealousy can be empowering for women. For men in these films, jealousy is tied to possessiveness and authority, but it gives women...