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Author(s) -
Lebanese American University
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.292
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , gender studies , front (military) , politics , power (physics) , political science , political education , sociology , engineering , law , ideology , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Revolutionary struggles, indeed, create “new women” who transgress prescribed gender roles, but these women remain disadvantaged in terms of the gendered division of power and resources when the revolution is over. A spokesperson for the Omani Women’s Organization, which was active in the People’s Front for the Liberation of Oman in the mid-1970s, put it this way: “Many men had received education and political experience… before they joined the Front, while women had their first education and political experience when as young girls they joined the Revolution.”