Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics
especially single mothers, their dormitory room may be their sole accommodation, and thus might be considered to contain a house ...
tended family as his sons bring their wives into the household. The sons, in turn, will start the circle anew. Households of ext ...
V. Doubleday, Three women of Herat, Austin, Tex. 1988. S. Farman-Farmaian, Daughter of Persia, New York 1992. E. Friedl, Women o ...
frérèches (households of married brothers) live together, and thus fission of the household did not take place easily (Okawara 2 ...
trends. Social historians, frustrated by finding that the records came from ruling households rather than from peasants or commo ...
of pedigree, generations elapsed since conversion to Islam, religiosity, wealth, occupational status, and intellect. This attent ...
Lutfallah, Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohamedan gentleman; and his transactions with his fellow-crea- tures, ed. E. B. Eastwi ...
tunities and constraints” (Gage et al. 1997, 299). Households are the dynamic center of female social life. Girls are born and m ...
in households. Mothers play an essential role in the socialization process: “before the child is seven, the father has no direct ...
Domestic slave use was widespread among the Muslim elites. Ubicini (1998) claimed that some households had hundreds of slaves an ...
between husband and wife reflects this inequality. Even in households where both marital partners are working outside, husbands ...
marriage. As homosexuality is generally not toler- ated among Muslims, gay cohabitation is relatively rare and will usually be k ...
United States make regular trips back to home countries to visit relatives and friends. Conversely, more financially comfortable ...
Overview The area of human rights is a “limited excep- tion” to the general absence and impact of women from and on the substanc ...
particular effort at mainstreaming gender perspec- tives came nearly two decades after a specialized convention on women’s right ...
Arabia, the Maldives, and Mauritania, and the committee continues to seek information from states on progress toward the withdra ...
discrimination under international human rights standards. The debate on “human rights in Islam” includes what Moosa has describ ...
Arab Gulf and Yemen The current general status of women’s human rights conditions in Yemen and the Arab Gulf states is broadly c ...
In spite of the overarching similarities pertaining to suppressed or weak civil activism, autocratic state regimes, and the supr ...
Muslim Canadians attain and retain their rights and civil liberties within Canada as well as to high- light their concerns. Wome ...
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