Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

B. Keskin-Kozat, Entangled in secular nationalism, Islamism and feminism. The life of Konca Kuriç, in Cultural Dynamics 15:2 (20 ...

Beyond these structural developments, which implicitly accept the separation of state and reli- gion, there are also public stat ...

Y. Karakaço©olu, “Kopftuchstudentinne” turkischer Her- kunft an deutschen Universitaten. Impliziter Islamic- musvorwurf und Disk ...

The Balkans This entry reviews sexual abuse of children in centralBalkan countries and territories (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-He ...

were family members. According to the statistics of the Serbian ministry of the interior, 892 criminal re- ports of sexual abuse ...

Child prostitution in the Caucasus Georgian law does not define prostitution in gen- eral or child prostitution in particular. P ...

there is a need for laws protecting victims when sexual abuse happens inside the family. Among constraints that have hindered th ...

out it, she is worth nothing to her family and soci- ety. This dictum extends even to young girls. For a “good” girl, sexual awa ...

loss of the victim’s reputation acts as further dis- couragement from seeking outside help. Even when victims overcome these dif ...

Overview In a landmark judgment delivered in April 1985, India’s Supreme Court granted a small mainte- nance allowance to Shah B ...

and husband’s relatives. If the woman is unable to maintain herself after the ≠iddaperiod, the magis- trate can order those rela ...

laws. Ashraf ≠AlìThànawì, a leading Islamic scholar/ reformer in the 1930s worked with Muslim con- verts in Punjab and Central I ...

the court adopted a socially based reading that can further constitutional goals and can bring personal laws in line with equali ...

East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Introduction A multi-faceted web of classes, states, ethnicities, social s ...

and Singapore, the kinship relation is more patriar- chal in that wives usually move in with their hus- bands’ families, prior t ...

depending on the society to which a woman be- longs. Among the predominantly Anglo-Celtic Australian feminists, a liberal attitu ...

L. Dube, Women and kinship. Perspectives on gender in South and South-East Asia, Tokyo 1997. L. Edwards, Women in the People’s R ...

the main social cleavage in Bahraini society was between what were considered the “Arabs of tribal descent,” who are Sunnìs, and ...

religion and the adoption of the Sunnìrite, with its own interpretation and legislation of reality; and, later, the French colon ...

African region under consideration; however, thanks to mass education and access to wage labor, women (either as active agents o ...