Sara Parhizkari

Bio: Sara Parhizkari is an academic researcher from University of Göttingen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multilevel model. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 9 citations.

A multilevel study of gender egalitarian values across Muslim-majority provinces: the role of women and urban spaces

Abstract: In global value research, Muslim-majority countries emerge not only as consistently more patriarchal but also as a rather homogeneous cultural cluster to that effect. We, however, know little about the variation within Muslim-majority countries in these values through comparative analysis of subnational units. This limits the possibility of identifying ‘localized pockets of transformation’ in support for gender equality in what the global research depicts as a relatively stagnate region. This manuscript is a first attempt at explaining the subnational variation in gender egalitarian values across Muslim-majority countries and its effect on key individual-level variables like gender. We model province and individual-level variance across 64 provinces in Egypt, Iran and Turkey with multilevel analysis (Hierarchical Linear Modeling HLM 7.0). Results show that whether provinces are more urban positively influences gender egalitarian values. At the individual level, we find that whether provinces are m...

Women, Islam, and the State

Abstract: Introduction, D. Kandiyoti end of empire - Islam, nationalism and women in Turkey, D. Kandiyoti hazards of modernity and morality - women, state and ideology in contemporary Iran, A. Najmabadi the convenience of subservience - women and the state of Pakistan, A. Jalal the quest for national identity - women, islam and the state in Bangladesh, N. Kabeer forced identities - communalism, fundamentalism and women in India, A. Chhachhi elite strategies for state building - women, family, religion and the state in Iraq and Lebanon, S. Joseph competing agendas - feminists, Islam and the state in 19th and 20th century Egypt, M. Badran the law, the state and socialist policies with regard to women - the case of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, M. Molyneux.

Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement: Al-Ali, Nadje: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 264 pp., Publication Date: August 2000

Abstract: Some people mentioned in the book are carefully identified; others are not. Proper editing would eliminate repetitious statements, which become tiresome for the reader. This book is useful for the general adult public with ii cursory knowledge of the TRC, but additional scholarship will be necessary to fully understand the important work of the commission and its implications for the new South Africa.

Explaining support for Muslim feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa

Abstract: Public debates depict Arabs as opposed to gender equality because of Islam. However, there may be substantial numbers of Arab Muslims who do support feminist issues and who do so while being highly...

How Polities Shape Support for Gender Equality and Religiosity’s Impact in Arab Countries

Abstract: Previous public opinion studies argued that in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Muslim citizens support gender equality less than non-Muslims, due to Islamic-patriarchal socialization. Deviating from this Orientalist narrative, we formulate a context-dependent agentic-socialization framework, which acknowledges religiosity's and gender equality's multidimensionality along with the MENA's political-institutional diversity. We expect that religious service attendance and devotion decrease support for gender equality in politics but not in education. Moreover, we theorize that open political structures allow citizens to express agency and dissociate from dominant patriarchal patterns. We test these expectations using WVS and AB data covering 50,000 respondents in 39 MENA country-years. Our results show religious service attendance indeed reduces support for gender equality. However, more devoted citizens support gender equality in education more than the less devoted, and in more democratic polities and in polities with more freedom of press, the same is found for political gender equality. Moreover, support for gender equality is greater in open polities than closed ones, but this gap closes when people frequent religious services. These results suggest MENA citizens are not univocally passively socialized by patriarchal religious views, but actively engage with other interpretations, provided these are not banned by oppressive governments.