Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Genderframing as a State Strategy: Historical Background and Theoretical Framework -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. The genderframing perspective -- 2 Definition of the Problem: Building a New Nation - How and Why to Include Women (1971-Early 1980s) -- 2.1. Fostering loyalty and overcoming localism: the overall tasks for the emerging state -- 2.2. Assessment of the situation of women: traditional attitudes and their socio-economic status -- 2.3. Why women? -- 2.4. The improvement of women's status as a symbol of national progress -- 2.5. Summary -- 3 The Making and Promotion of the Genderframe (1971-Early 1980s) -- 3.1. Envisaged solutions to the problem of including women -- 3.2. Sponsoring female education -- 3.3. Becoming working women for the sake of the nation -- 3.4. Channelling the genderframe into society: the role of the UAE women's associations -- 3.5. Summary -- 4 Re-signifying Religion and Culture: The Changed Environment (Late 1970s-2009) -- 4.1. Islamization, cultural anxieties, and the Emirati society's self-questioning -- 4.2. Cultural anxieties I: tradition and UAE women's roles -- 4.3. Cultural anxieties II: raising true citizens -- 4.4. Cultural anxieties III: UAE women and the Emiratization policy -- 4.5. Summary -- 5 Culture Re-signified: Contemporary Challenges (Late 1990s-2009) -- 5.1. Pursuing new meanings I: UAE women and leadership -- 5.2. Pursuing new meanings II: the road to political and decision-making positions -- 5.3. Pursuing new meanings III: UAE women as political officials -- 5.4. Whither genderframe and the challenges for the next generation? -- 5.5. Summary -- 6 A Genderframe Transformation? Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Books -- Articles from newspapers and magazines -- Official documents.

Grey literature: miscellaneous -- Index.