ABSTRACT
The achievements and limitations of the women’s movement are determined by dominant political forces rather than by radical challenges to the existing order. Political activism on behalf of women’s interests in Jordan is led by a few prominent NGOs and quasi-governmental organizations, whose efforts on behalf of women’s rights have been associated with many of the significant legal changes of the last dozen years. While these organizations do not always present a united front, and while their particular agendas may vary somewhat, they are sufficiently similar in their goals and their activities that they can be loosely designated the “women’s movement.”1
