Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Malaysia and Indonesia Dissent that is postcolonial in orientation requires a double move. It must be critically aware of the di ...

conventional disciplinary and issue-area bound- aries and categories. Developments in postcolonial dissent have emerged in part ...

to determine how their land will be developed and how profits from that development will be distrib- uted. In this work, SUARAM ...

Hassan, Morrocan feminist Fatima Mernissi, and Wadud (Anwar 2001, Othman 1994, 2003). Oth- man and others call for the reclaimin ...

postcolonial?, in Critical Inquiry17 (Winter 1991), 336–57. H. Bhabha, The location of culture, New York 1994. M. Budianta, The ...

Afghanistan For the vast majority of Afghan women, the fam- ily functions as the paramount social institution. Thus women’s part ...

Secondary Sources L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J. 1980. N. H. Dupree, Afghan women under the Taliban, in W. Maley (ed.), ...

gendered causes encumbers the advancement of women’s issues in legislative processes. Familial dynamics also promote male, rathe ...

This proportion was maintained until 1989 (Khas- bulatova 2001). The Soviet state was not persistent in implement- ing its decla ...

mental organizations in post-Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian republics are reluctant to promote this concept. The issue of pa ...

to serve as advisors to some courts, even if they con- tinued to be barred as judges. Bibliography J. Afari, The Iranian Constit ...

The causes of underrepresentation of women in parliament and cabinets are: In general, women’s patterns of political par- ticip ...

S. Çakır, Bir’in nostaljisinden kurtulmak. Siyaset teorisine ve pratigine cinsiyet açısından bakıç, in A. ÷lyaso©lu and N. Akgök ...

Overview Gender distinctions in Muslim societies have often been approached through a clear dichotomy be- tween the public (equa ...

the domains of their visits are separate from men, as dictated by prevailing social tradition and Islamic norms, they neverthele ...

Current debates The meanings of public and private and the boundaries that differentiate the spaces allocated to men from those ...

J. E. Tucker, Women and the state in 19th century Egypt. Insurrectionary women, in Middle East Report (January–February 1986), 9 ...

Egypt and Sudan Our investigation of the lived experience of women in Egypt and Sudan acknowledges the importance of viewing rac ...

Islam did not consider owning slaves sinful, although there were strictures against owning fel- low Muslims. Even here, Blacks w ...

ethnic groups in Sudan, most research has been concentrated upon the “Arabs” of northern Sudan, the Dinka of the Bahr al-Ghazal ...