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Domestic Violence in Iran : Women, Marriage and Islam.

This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that dome...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tizro, Zahra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2011.
Colección:Iranian Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that domestic violence is deeply rooted in society and situated in the fundament of current discourses. Investigating how orthodox jurisprudence as mainstream discourse, together with social, legal and public norms, help to perpetuate the production and reproduction of physical, psychological, sexual and eco.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (281 pages).
ISBN:9780203801543
0203801547