خلاصه ماشینی:
Using a crosscultural comparative approach, the theoretical introduction as well as the individual case studies seek to challenge dominant ( especially western) feminist models of analysis of the question of gender and citizenship in the Middle East.
The volume thus theorizes the gendering of citizenship from the largely unexplored perspectives that open up from introducing the above variables, toward a better understanding of the complex nature of the laws (religious, political, patriarchal and patrilineal) governing the construction of a gendered citizenship in the Middle East.
The methodological approach adopted by various contributors draws mainly on key concepts and analytical categories that are directly related to social sciences and international human rights law in regards to various social, cultural and political mechanisms and processes involved in the construction of citizenship.
By arguing that the Arab-based constructions of identity reinforce patriarchal structures of domination, the author of the case study on Sudan describes the new model of Sudanese citizenship that emerged during the recent dramatic changes in the Sudanese political scene: a model that is free of gender hierarchical structures, and finds its main inspiration and endorsement in the Islamic shari'ah.
The theoretical points of departures outlined in the introductory chapter seem to consider religion as being merely one among many modes of identity construction (such as kinship, patriarchy, class) in which the individual has an identity exclusively by his/her belonging to a particular community, and not in relation to a set of universal laws or values.