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Is the Motherist Approach More Helpful in Obtaining Women's Rights than a Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Liberia

Whetstone, Crystal Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1369300531

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2013, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
The theory that women gain rights during the social upheaval of war has not held universally. While the debate has traditionally centered over women’s participation in fighting and entry into the workforce this paper explores the topic from the form of mobilization, motherist or feminist, that women’s organizing takes during war through the use of a longitudinal, comparative study of Lebanon and Liberia. Lebanese women’s organizations overwhelmingly employed motherist mobilization and tackled practical gender interests that made no attempt to end women’s subordination. In contrast, during the Liberian civil war women’s groups were more apt to focus on strategic gender interests which acknowledged hierarchical gender relations. This paper addresses whether a motherist approach allows women a culturally acceptable space from which to make demands or if, in fact, the motherist approach limits opportunities to increase women’s rights.
December Green, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Laura Luehrmann, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Awad Halabi, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
271 p.
International Relations
Women's rights; maternalism; feminism; women and war; Lebanese civil war; Liberian civil war.

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  • Whetstone, C. M. (2013). Is the Motherist Approach More Helpful in Obtaining Women's Rights than a Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Liberia [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1369300531

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Whetstone, Crystal. Is the Motherist Approach More Helpful in Obtaining Women's Rights than a Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Liberia. 2013. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1369300531.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Whetstone, Crystal. "Is the Motherist Approach More Helpful in Obtaining Women's Rights than a Feminist Approach? A Comparative Study of Lebanon and Liberia." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1369300531

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