Moving Beyond Culturalism and Formalism: Islam, Women, and Political Unrest in the Middle East
批判了将女性与伊斯兰关系简单化的文化主义观点，并指出新古典经济学的形式主义未能提供替代方案，反而强化了对中东的误解。
Scenes of political unrest throughout the Middle East are often coupled with media reports and public debates in the United States that have a recurring theme: the relationship between women and Islam. After discussing the culturalist accounts that portray women as being in grave danger from Islam and in need of Western protection and supervision, this contribution examines an emerging trend in political science developed under the influence of the formalism of neoclassical economics. The study argues that despite ostensibly universal assumptions about human behavior and alleged objectivity, the theoretical foundations of neoclassical economics and its methodological formalism fall short in providing an alternative to culturalism, and, instead, reinforce the misperceptions and misunderstandings about the region.