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Violence against women in Qatari Society
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Duke University Press
, 2009 , Article)
This study is the first of its kind using field and documentary research sources. While official sources on the subject have proven the limitations of such data, the study uses a field survey of a sample of 2,787 women ...
The relation between spaces and cultural change: supermalls and cultural change in Qatari society
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University of the Aegean
, 2017 , Article)
This study is the first attempt to ethnographically assess the influences of supermalls on cultural change. It takes a first step toward enhancing our understanding of the influences of globalization and consumer culture ...
The intellectual frameworks and theoretical limits of Arab feminist thought
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
This is a critical assessment of the intellectual and theoretical underpinnings of
Feminism in the Arab world across the different phases in its evolution. The
paper notes what has been achieved in respect of some specific ...
The hierarchy of authority based on kinship, age, and gender in the extended family in the Arab gulf states
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William S. Hein & Co., Inc
, 2013 , Article)
Almost all aspects of life in the Arab Gulf States, including family, have been touched by rapid, unstoppable social change. Nevertheless, certain aspects of the family remain intact. That is, although the nuclear family ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ...
Transitional society and participation of women in the public sphere: A survey of Qatar society
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Delhi, India
, 2017 , Article)
The purpose of this study was to assess the Qatar population current perceptions about women rights: like spouse selection, education, and their attitudes toward women’s new roles in Qatari society in transition period. ...