From my reading, VM Moghadam has some of the best writings on issues in MENA.
MOGHADAM, V. M. (2007). Women's Empowerment. From Patriarchy to Empowerment: Women's Participation, Movements, and Rights in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, Syracuse University Press,.
"Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East, Valentine Moghadam, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2nd ed., 2003. Paper:
Earlier works also offer great insight:
Moghadam, V. M. (1992). Development and patriarchy: the Middle East and North Africa in economic and demographic transition. World Institute for Development Economics Research.
Moghadam, V. M. (1992). Development and women's emancipation: is there a connection?. Development and Change, 23(3), 215-255.
Work relating to the Patriarchal Belt:
Caldwell, John. 1982. Theory of Fertility Decline. London and New York: Academic Press.
Kandiyoti, D. (1988). Bargaining with patriarchy. Gender & Society, 2(3), 274-290.
Kandiyoti, D. (2002). Bargaining with Patriarchy. The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics. Ed. Nancy Holmstrom. New York: Monthly Review, 137-151.
Romie Frederick Littrell, PhD, FIAIR
Editor, AIB Insights; International Management Area Editor, International Journal of Emerging Markets
AUT Business School, Tel. extension 5805, Mail stop B-31
Dear Colleagues,
Our campus is interested in developing a foundational course for a minor program (Undergraduate) in Women and Gender Studies. The committee would like to build the curriculum around 7 to 10 common texts, appropriately augmented and/or interpreted by the faculty member teaching any particular section.
The burning question is, If you could suggest any one (or two) texts that address central issues of women and gender studies as it pertains (within a business curriculum), what would that be?
Happy to compile the list and repost if there is interest!
Thanks in advance.
Kelly Fisher, Ph.D
Air Force Culture and Language Fellow
Texas A&M University – Kingsville