Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

between gender, indigenous kinship relations, state, and religious ideologies and practices from the colonial period onwards: th ...

in the Philippines, Thailand, and Burma, for exam- ple. In the Philippines, Muslims comprise an esti- mated 5–7 percent of the t ...

K. Sen and M. Stivens (eds.), Gender and power in afflu- ent Asia, London 1998. M. Stivens, Matriliny and modernity. Sexual poli ...

Overview This entry examines the legal-ethical rules and practices, prevalent in Muslim societies, past and present, which stem ...

which was the source of the milk of both was one and... the two sucklings had thus become as though they were the children of th ...

the nursling’s mouth only or also other, indirect ways, such as pouring milk from the breasts of a woman into a strange infant’s ...

Overview “Kurdish women” are members of a non-state nation, the Kurds, who have lived since ancient times in their homeland, Kur ...

production work as well as singing, dancing, and other entertainment. Nomadic women did all the work related to animal husbandry ...

was, like its Western counterparts, a male entity, which denied women the right to participate in the exercise of state power. W ...

Westernization of dress and calendar. Unveiled women, studying in coeducational institutions and participating in public life, a ...

forms of “sexual torture,” including rape. The mothers of the disappeared organized into a vocal group called Saturday Mothers, ...

military offensive, demonstrated the failure of the Pahlavìmonarchy to integrate non-Persian women into the unitary ethnicist st ...

Party’s powerful women’s organization cooperated with the Union of Kurdish Women, and lobbied for legal reform, which brought ma ...

the Kurds enter into complex relationships with the prevalent regime in each country. Patriarchal rela- tions ranging from arran ...

S. Meiselas, Kurdistan. In the shadow of history, New York 1997. S. Mojab (ed.), Women of a non-state nation, The Kurds, Costa M ...

Afghanistan With a well-defined judiciary in the constitution and jurisprudence composed of the Sharì≠a, Civil Code, and traditi ...

law (North Africa, Egypt), Ottoman law (Jordan, Syria, Palestine), and English law (Kuwait, Yemen, Gulf states). All Arab court ...

tors. Whereas many women do make it to court – in a number of countries women appear to be the majority of litigants in family l ...

N. Bernard-Maugiron and B. Dupret, Introduction. A general presentation of law and judicial bodies, in N. Bernard-Maugiron and B ...

dispose of their own property, but pursuant to Sharì≠a law there were inequalities in their inheri- tance rights. In addition, M ...