Women's Electoral Participation in Egypt: The Implications of Gender for Voter Recruitment and Mobilization (original) (raw)
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iii Acknowledgement iv 1.0 Introduction 1 2.0 Methodology 3 3.0 Theoretical Context 8 3.1 Political participation 8 3.2 The inclusion-moderation theory 9 3.3 Muslim Brotherhood and women's political participation: an exercise of ambiguity ......... 10 4.0 Literature reviews 11 4.1 Women in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 11 4.2 Women at Alnnahda Tunisian party 14 4.3 Sisterhood and political participation in Egyptian MuslimBrotherhood: the cases of ambiguity or real recognition of women political rights. 17 4.4 Women’s political participation at Alnnahda Tunisian party: promising future or religious, political game? 26 5.0 Findings and discussion 36 5.2 Women in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 36 5.3 Women’s political participation at Alnnahda party. 39 6.0 Conclusion 40 7.0 References 43 8.0 Appendices 45