ABSTRACT Islam, Sex, and Sect: a Quantitative Look at Women's
ABSTRACT Islam, Sex, and Sect: A Quantitative Look at Women’s Rights in the Middle East Alessandra L. González, M.A. Thesis Chairperson: Paul Froese, Ph.D. In this paper I analyze Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women’s rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, religious experience, religious salience, and religious practice have direct effects on women’s rights attitudes, while controlling for gender, in a majority-Muslim context. My findings show that gender, sect, religious school of thought, and political identity but not religious practice have persistent effects on attitudes about women’s rights. Islam, Sex, and Sect: A Quantitative Look at Women’s Rights in the Middle East by Alessandra L. González, B.A. A Thesis Approved by the Department of Sociology ___________________________________ Charles M. Tolbert II, Ph.D., Chairperson Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Approved by the Thesis Committee ___________________________________ Paul Froese, Ph.D., Chairperson ___________________________________ Diana Kendall, Ph.D. ___________________________________ Charles A. McDaniel, Ph.D. Accepted by the Graduate School May 2008 ___________________________________ J. Larry Lyon, Ph.D., Dean Page bearing signatures is kept on file in the Graduate School. Copyright © 2008 by Alessandra L. González All rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS I. List of Tables iv II. Acknowledgments v III. Chapter One: Introduction 1 Theoretical Framework IV. Chapter Two: Data, Methods, and Variable Selection 7 Dependent Variables Control Variables V.
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