Mapping the Production of Knowledge (MPK) Database
Access 20,000 Articles on Women and Gender in the Arab Region
Mapping the Production of Knowledge on Women and Gender in the Arab Region is launching the MPK Database. The MPK database lists 20,000 academic references on women and gender in the region published from 1970 to 2022.
The focus of the database is on socialities under the following six broad themes:
- Class, race, minority, ethnicity, tribe, family, kin, care work and social networks
- Media and popular culture
- Religion
- Sexuality and the body
- Social consequences of war, displacement, migration, violence and precarity
- Space and socialities
The free, publicly available, searchable database will take you directly to articles for the keywords searched. If your university or organization subscribes to the platform from which the reference was listed, you will have direct access to the article itself. If your university or organization does not subscribe to the platform from which the article was listed, you will still be able to see the reference and an abstract, if an abstract was available.
The MPK database will facilitate comparative analysis on diverse topics covering over half a century of research on women and gender in the Arab region. It is the first such database.
The MPK database is a project of the University of California Davis Arab Region Consortium, in partnership with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. The MPK team came from the UCDAR partner universities: The American University of Beirut, The American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, Birzeit University, the American University of Sharja and University of California Davis. MPK was funded by the Open Society Foundation, Amman, Jordan. Analyses of the findings developed by the MPK team will be published on the MPK website, as well as in appropriate journals.
Check the MPK website for full instructions on how to use the database