Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Turkey The Civil Code of the Turkish Republic was passed in 1926, and comprised family law as one of its sub-fields. The new law ...

D. Kandiyoti, Emancipated but unliberated? Reflections on the Turkish case, in Feminist Studies13:2 (1987), 317–38. N. Sirman, W ...

which empowers the male alone to dissolve a mar- riage unilaterally and extra-judicially. In contrast, the wife has only two opt ...

Overview Throughout Islamic history as well as during the contemporary period, Muslim jurists, reformers, and latterly feminists ...

especially in relation to Qur±àn 2:282. In summary, the majority opinion amongst the four schools is that for transactions, two ...

law these issues have been and will continue to be examined. Bibliography A. Y. ≠Ali (trans. and comm.),The Holy Qur±àn, Beltsvi ...

Afghanistan With overall literacy presently estimated at no more than 25 percent and rural female literacy in single digits, Afg ...

gandist appropriation and violence, described in personal experience narratives and oral histories, became a rallying theme for ...

access to religious knowledge, assume leadership, and mediate in communal affairs. The otinserves as model for women, who, after ...

E. A. Allworth (ed.), The Tatars of the Crimea. Return to the homeland. Studies and documents, Durham, N.C. 19982. M. Buckley (e ...

and preserve the purity of its women, is described in the semi-autobiographical texts of Asayesh (1999), Satrapi (2003), and Naf ...

“betraying” women may have also served as a way of erasing the forced and, in many ways, brutal transformation of a heterogeneou ...

Connerton (1992) has advanced insights into the importance of ritual celebrations and commemora- tions for the ways societies re ...

the sacrifice itself, is a household affair. Because of the transfer to the slaughterhouse in Europe, women are no longer part o ...

en islam. Espaces et temps d’un rituel, Paris 1999, 93–122. P. Connerton, How societies remember, Cambridge 1992. J. Dakhlia, Ne ...

Sub-Saharan Africa Women in Sub-Saharan African countries have had an ambivalent relationship with the militaries of their socie ...

military, but not demobilized and reintegrated as men were. Barth (2002) describes the disappointment of peasant Eritrean female ...

J. Cock, Forging a new army out of old enemies. Women in the South African military, in Women’s Studies Quarterly23 (Fall/Winter ...

(1913–2001), one of the adopted daughters of Atatürk and the first woman combat pilot in the world. Gökçen joined the Air Academ ...

of the total United States military force in 1973 to 15 percent in 2003 (Manning and Wight 2003, 10). The majority of combat rel ...