Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

2003, <http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/infosummary/ source.htm>. L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J. 1973. N. H. Dup ...

Indeed, for the majority of the population in the Caucasus, the family has continued to be the repos- itory of what was left of ...

Although mothers hoped for sons, they also wel- comed daughters who, from a young age, could help their mothers. By the time a g ...

transformed. Educated and/or working daughters- in-law are not willing to live under the authority of a mother-in-law, sharing t ...

unhealthy or backward. Educators, social workers, and doctors stressed the need to eliminate many childrearing practices, includ ...

family. New European frontiers and networks, New York 2002, 127–46. N. Göle, The forbidden modern. Civilization and veiling, Ann ...

Overview In many respects, the study of gender and nation- alism in Islamic societies is in its early phase. At the same time, o ...

goals would bring about their liberation (Fleisch- mann 1999, 115). Hence, as the promise of emanci- pation fell short of expect ...

to be relevant to nationalist formulations in many Islamic cultures. According to Chatterjee, the Bengalis structured a cosmolog ...

ideal and brought about the construction of a con- cept of national honor. This development did not imply an invitation to women ...

A. Jalal, The convenience of subservience. Women and the state of Pakistan, in D. Kandiyoti (ed.), Women, Islam and the state, P ...

Arab States Arab states, like other modern nation-states, pro- duce visual representations of the nation that are often highly g ...

Western national iconography, while continuing the well-established tradition of representing the nation as a woman. They also h ...

To understand this transformation, we need to look at the representational domain to which the sun belonged, the Qàjàr visual cu ...

generally have a set of symbols and practices that accompany the dominant ideology of nationalism. Thus, when Namibia achieved i ...

example, to encourage families to educate girls (Gordon and Gordon 2001, 282) and in the 1990s the government appointed a minist ...

North Africa In North Africa, a person’s network consists of a web of social ties with kin, neighbors, friends, and (less common ...

Visits at religious celebrations (≠ayàd) and life cycle events (munàsabàt) play an important role in reaffirming ties with a lar ...

well as through labor sharing and emotional and other types of support in hard times. Kinship terminology shows that men who wou ...

M. L. Meriwether, The kin who count. Family and society in Ottoman Aleppo, Austin, Tex. 1999. J. Pardoe, The city of the sultan, ...