Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973

Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian... This is a revisionist study of Syrian Baʾathism. At its heart is an examination of ingrained masculinist bias. This article argues that there is a reciprocal relationship between militarism and masculinity, achieved through gratifying protection for both the nation and women. While most feminist scholarship dealing with states formation in the Arab context attributes its gendered nature to dictatorship, patriarchy, and religion, there is no debate about the development of states and their relation to militarism and masculinism. This construction of militarized masculinity in Baʾath ideology ensures the preservation of gendered laws that perceive women as less equal. While teasing out this aspect, this study seeks to explore the status of women in the Syrian Constitution (1973) and laws by investigating the role of the state as a male protector in which women’s rights become challenged by the state’s paternalistic perceptions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973

Download PDF
27 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/duke-university-press/interrogating-the-constructions-of-masculinist-protection-and-DX0RmNXlnz
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
ISSN
1552-5864
eISSN
1558-9579
DOI
10.1215/15525864-7273706
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

This is a revisionist study of Syrian Baʾathism. At its heart is an examination of ingrained masculinist bias. This article argues that there is a reciprocal relationship between militarism and masculinity, achieved through gratifying protection for both the nation and women. While most feminist scholarship dealing with states formation in the Arab context attributes its gendered nature to dictatorship, patriarchy, and religion, there is no debate about the development of states and their relation to militarism and masculinism. This construction of militarized masculinity in Baʾath ideology ensures the preservation of gendered laws that perceive women as less equal. While teasing out this aspect, this study seeks to explore the status of women in the Syrian Constitution (1973) and laws by investigating the role of the state as a male protector in which women’s rights become challenged by the state’s paternalistic perceptions.

Journal

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2019

References

  • Tharwat al-Ḥayāt
    Aflaq, Michel
  • ʾĪmān
    Aflaq, Michel
  • al-jīl al-ʿArabi al-jadīd
    Aflaq, Michel
  • hawla al-rīsalah al-ʿArabīyah
    Aflaq, Michel
  • Al-Baʾath al-ʿArabī īradīt al-haīyat
    Aflaq, Michel
  • khubrat al-shyyūkh w ῑndῑfʾ al-shabāb
    Aflaq, Michel
  • al-Baʾathi hwa al-surah al-haqiqīyah li lūmmah
    Aflaq, Michel
  • Revisiting Ideological Borrowings in Syrian Nationalist Narratives: Sati al-Husri, Michel Aflaq, and Zaki al-Arsuzi
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • Interrogating the Construction of Gendered Identity in Syrian Nationalist Narrative: al-Husari, Aflaq, and Arsuzi
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • Negotiating Gender Boundaries in the Constitutional Narratives (1973–2012): Construction of Militant Identity
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • The Regional Equalization of Health Care and Education in Syria since the Baʾthi Revolution
    Drysdale, Alasdair
  • Spectacular Sexuality: Nationalism, Development, and the Policies of Family Planning in Indonesia
    Dwyer, Leslie K. Mayer, Tamar
  • Reflections on War and Political Discourse: Realism, Just War, and Feminism in a Nuclear Age
    Elshtain, Jean Bethke
  • The October War: Egypt, Syria, Israel
    Galvani, John
  • Syria for the Syrians: The Rise of Syrian Nationalism, 1970–2013
    Gilbert, Victoria
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
    Haraway, Donna
  • The Methodological Problems of Ideology Critique
    Harvey, Lee
  • Syrian Women and Feminist Agenda
    Hill, Fiona White, Paul J. Logan, William S.
  • Modern Syrian Politics
    Hinnebusch, Raymond
  • Syria
    Kelly, Sanja Breslin, Julia Kelly, Sanja Breslin, Julia
  • Al-Assad Issues a Decree to Repeal a Provision of the Penal Code Relating to Honor Crimes
    Khaizaran, Lora
  • Arab Unity Schemes Revisited: Interest, Identity, and Policy in Syria and Egypt
    Kienle, Eberhard
  • Gender, Family Law, and Citizenship in Syria
    Maktabi, Rania
  • The Syrian Neo-Baʾth Regime and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1966–1970
    Mann, Joseph
  • Constitutional Identity
    Rosenfeld, Michel Rosenfeld, Michel Sajó, András
  • The Protected, the Protector, the Defender
    Stiehm, Judith
  • First National Primary Policy Report on the State of Population in Syria
  • Modernizing as State Building: The Two Germanies in Syria, 1963–1972
    Trentin, Massimiliano
  • Is Citizenship Gendered?
    Walby, Sylvia
  • ‘Creating Phantoms’: Zaki al-Arsuzi, the Alexandretta Crisis, and the Formation of Modern Arab Nationalism in Syria
    Watenpaugh, Keith
  • The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State
    Young, Iris Marion
  • Tharwat al-Ḥayāt
    Aflaq, Michel
  • ʾĪmān
    Aflaq, Michel
  • al-jīl al-ʿArabi al-jadīd
    Aflaq, Michel
  • hawla al-rīsalah al-ʿArabīyah
    Aflaq, Michel
  • Al-Baʾath al-ʿArabī īradīt al-haīyat
    Aflaq, Michel
  • khubrat al-shyyūkh w ῑndῑfʾ al-shabāb
    Aflaq, Michel
  • al-Baʾathi hwa al-surah al-haqiqīyah li lūmmah
    Aflaq, Michel
  • Revisiting Ideological Borrowings in Syrian Nationalist Narratives: Sati al-Husri, Michel Aflaq, and Zaki al-Arsuzi
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • Interrogating the Construction of Gendered Identity in Syrian Nationalist Narrative: al-Husari, Aflaq, and Arsuzi
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • Negotiating Gender Boundaries in the Constitutional Narratives (1973–2012): Construction of Militant Identity
    Aldoughli, Rahaf
  • The Regional Equalization of Health Care and Education in Syria since the Baʾthi Revolution
    Drysdale, Alasdair
  • Spectacular Sexuality: Nationalism, Development, and the Policies of Family Planning in Indonesia
    Dwyer, Leslie K. Mayer, Tamar
  • Reflections on War and Political Discourse: Realism, Just War, and Feminism in a Nuclear Age
    Elshtain, Jean Bethke
  • The October War: Egypt, Syria, Israel
    Galvani, John
  • Syria for the Syrians: The Rise of Syrian Nationalism, 1970–2013
    Gilbert, Victoria
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
    Haraway, Donna
  • The Methodological Problems of Ideology Critique
    Harvey, Lee
  • Syrian Women and Feminist Agenda
    Hill, Fiona White, Paul J. Logan, William S.
  • Modern Syrian Politics
    Hinnebusch, Raymond
  • Syria
    Kelly, Sanja Breslin, Julia Kelly, Sanja Breslin, Julia
  • Al-Assad Issues a Decree to Repeal a Provision of the Penal Code Relating to Honor Crimes
    Khaizaran, Lora
  • Arab Unity Schemes Revisited: Interest, Identity, and Policy in Syria and Egypt
    Kienle, Eberhard
  • Gender, Family Law, and Citizenship in Syria
    Maktabi, Rania
  • The Syrian Neo-Baʾth Regime and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 1966–1970
    Mann, Joseph
  • Constitutional Identity
    Rosenfeld, Michel Rosenfeld, Michel Sajó, András
  • The Protected, the Protector, the Defender
    Stiehm, Judith
  • First National Primary Policy Report on the State of Population in Syria
  • Modernizing as State Building: The Two Germanies in Syria, 1963–1972
    Trentin, Massimiliano
  • Is Citizenship Gendered?
    Walby, Sylvia
  • ‘Creating Phantoms’: Zaki al-Arsuzi, the Alexandretta Crisis, and the Formation of Modern Arab Nationalism in Syria
    Watenpaugh, Keith
  • The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State
    Young, Iris Marion