Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

the most comfortable pillows and seating and served more refreshments. Because of women’s lower sta- tus and traditional modesty ...

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but a symbol of the status, wealth, and honor of the host as well as his guest. At the height of the Islamic empire, travelers’ ...

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A. I. Musucaev, The traditional hospitality of Kabardians and Balkarians, Nalchik 1990. M. N. Serebrjakova, A few aspects of eth ...

Central Asia The status of family in Central Asia has always been very high. A family with many children is a symbol of wealth a ...

The transition from centrally planned to free market economy has left many men in Central Asia out of work, with accompanying de ...

families they elaborately care for and supervise children, especially in Iran. In well-appointed households with few children or ...

According to the Demographic and Health Sur- veys (Table 1), women’s education and workforce participation, as measured by mean ...

Much less is known about division of labor within the household and variations regionally. A study of time use data collected in ...

Dyson and Moore (1983) suggest that regional variation in women’s autonomy is related to kin- ship systems of patrilineality and ...

in income-generating activities, as were their sisters in precolonial Southeast Asia (Reid 1988, 634–5). Wealthier women of Lamp ...

The intent for a girl to learn these skills was to refine her female deportment (Omar 1994, 28–9) and create feminine qualities ...

S. Dorairajoo, “No fish in the sea.” Thai-Malay tactics of negotiation in a time of scarcity, Ph.D. diss., Depart- ment of Anthr ...

to provide services and in search of a livelihood through restaurants or prostitution. During the two world wars many men in Fre ...

of domestic labor, freeing their in-laws for ritual work outside the household, which often involves elaborate forms of reciproc ...

Even in cases where the resulting products are mar- keted, constituting significant contributions to household income, these act ...

E. Olson-Prather, Family planning and husband-wife relationships in contemporary Turkey, Ph.D. diss., University of California, ...

The Caucasus This entry deals mainly with Azerbaijan. This is because of the shortage of relevant scholarship on the rest of the ...

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