Marshall, Susan Elaine

The power of the veil : the politics of female status in North Africa / Susan Elaine Marshall - [S.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]

Ph. D. : Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts : 1980

The analysis examines variations in female modernity among the five North African Muslim states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Female modernity refers to the degree to which women are integrated into the modern sector, and includes measures of female literacy, educational achievement, labour force participation and fertility...