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Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia /

"The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family; and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications for gender rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-, Desai, Manisha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Gender and globalization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Disobedient wives and neglectful husbands : marital relations and the first phase of family law reform in Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno
  • Patriarchy, sexuality, and property : the impact of colonial state policies on gender relations in India / Flavia Agnes
  • The monotheisms, patriarchy, and the constitutional right to human dignity in Israel / Frances Raday
  • Legal pluralism versus a uniform civil code : the continuing debates in India / Manisha Desai
  • Institutions and women's rights : religion, the state, and family in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
  • Struggles over personal status and family law in post-Baathist Iraq / Juan Cole
  • Family, gender, and law in Jordan and Palestine / Lynn Welchman
  • Revisiting the debate on family law in Morocco : context, actors, and discourses / Zakia Salime
  • Straddling CEDAW and the MMA : conflicting visions of women's rights in contemporary Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss
  • Gender and law(s) : moral regulation in contemporary Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman
  • Shifting practices and identities : nontraditional relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis / Frances S. Hasso
  • Afghan refugee women in Iran : revisioning the Afghan family / Homa Hoodfar.