Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

who are isolated from family and childhood friends, as marriage generally means living with the new husband’s family. Especially ...

up friendships. In her later years, freedom from responsibilities to husband and children, and the greater latitude allowed a po ...

South Asia Like ripples of water hit by a pebble, the social life of Muslim women in South Asia emanated out- wards from the cen ...

since the early twentieth century, variously known as menij(turn), sayoo(friends), or goth(an ar- rangement). This is a circle o ...

household duties for the first week and check in on her as she gradually resumes her household tasks. This sharing of the minuti ...

relax, eat, catch up on each other’s news, exchange information, and enjoy one another’s company. Bibliography M. Bâ, So long a ...

Central Asia Although the development of gender socializa- tion throughout Central Asia shares a common his- tory, the Soviet pe ...

to a special form of male and female conformism, a double standard between Russified norms of behavior at work and in social spa ...

telephone) and appear in public unmolested with make-up and minimal compliance with the dress code, setting examples for others. ...

N. Tapper, Bartered brides. Politics, gender, and marriage in a tribal society, Cambridge 1991. B. S. Yasgur, Behind the burqa. ...

(Eyüp) al-Anßàrì, a Companion of the Prophet who died in a seventh-century Muslim siege of Byzan- tine Constantinople. Women’s i ...

have been greatly influenced by the local socioeco- nomic and cultural conditions. The countries of the subcontinent share a com ...

Obedience to men forms an important aspect of female socialization, and is expressed through women being respectful and obedient ...

approaches sex segregation becomes crucial with regard to the much lauded ideal of purity and notions of respectability and sham ...

both girls and boys have to be transformed into women and men, rather than simply becoming adults as a result of physical growth ...

More generally, women’s position in Turkish so- ciety and their experience of socialization have undergone significant changes o ...

central position in regulating social relations, which subsequently empowered women in subtle ways. Moreover, expectations of wo ...

N. Tohidi, “Guardians of the nation.” Women, Islam, and the Soviet legacy of modernization in Azerbaijan, in H. Bodman and N. To ...

Arab States The expression kalàm al-nàs(talk of the people) is a common term for gossip throughout much of the Arab Middle East ...

Such gossip can contribute directly to femicide, when a male murders a female family member for being deemed as having had impro ...