Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

Women‘s Participation and the Governmentality of the Government in Kuwait.

S. M. Khalid

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 The GCC (Gulf Co–operation Council) states are among the most rapidly developing states, with women certainly playing the important role in the development of these authoritarian states. Women are now making front page headlines regularly in the local media for their achievements in public life. This paper tries to understand women‘s political role of women in various governmental and non–governmental organizations in the GCC states and it also raises questions as to how these organization assist government in achieving the desired end and influence change. In this attempt, the paper suggests oader frameworks to understand the  complex state–society relations departing from the traditional rentier–state paradigm. The paper looks into the positions women occupy within the state apparatus how they help state in achieving state objectives with reference to the governmentality literature. 

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S. M. Khalid, Women‘s Participation and the Governmentality of the Government in Kuwait., INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾2 | February‾2017

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