Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

forged in the European and American courts of jus- tice. As a general rule, negotiation is suitable in all aspects of family lif ...

the terms of engagement between races and cultures, and a plea for equality, in Diversity Factor9:3 (Spring 2001), 31–4. A. Koba ...

Overview Recent research on Muslim women’s lives out- side the home and harem has called into question accepted truths about the ...

ily wealth to fund schools and charities, while poorer women worked outside the home in a vari- ety of occupations as peddlars, ...

the emergent capitalist bourgeoisie, and were there- fore distinct from the state. Outside Europe, mod- ern civil societies were ...

Indonesian society than in many other Islamic soci- eties, and nationalists did not restrict women to a domestic sphere protecte ...

in exchange for preservation of patriarchal prac- tices that limited women’s authority and independ- ence both in and out of the ...

J. Afary, The Iranian constitutional revolution, 1906– Grassroots democracy, social democracy and the origins of feminism, New ...

A. E. MacLeod, Accommodating protest. Working women, the new veiling, and change in Cairo, Cairo 1992. A. Marcus, The Middle Eas ...

darity groups with poorer women. These networks and groups became mechanisms for women’s em- powerment. Amongst these women are: ...

The Balkans This analysis of civil society with the focus on women and gender issues relates to the situation in the successor s ...

The pluralism of women’s interests and the way they organize can also be observed in religious mat- ters. Faith-based women’s or ...

not new. The pre-revolutionary state attempted to approach the question by identifying itself as indis- pensable to the securing ...

postcolonial definition of civil society. This per- ceives these categories as fluid, socially negotiated, and shaped by the rel ...

Palestinian civil society in Israel In the Mandate period, Palestinian society developed social and political organizations as ...

women in the Yishuv and Zionism. A gender perspec- tive [in Hebrew], Jerusalem 2001. Y. Yishai, Civil society in transition. Int ...

1990s, Muslim women in Tanzania have been active in politics and have formed non-governmen- tal organizations intended to promot ...

S. Geiger, TANU Women. Gender and culture in the mak- ing of Tanganyikan nationalism (1955–1965), Ports- mouth, N.H. 1997. P. Gi ...

Central Asia and the Caucasus The Muslim states of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ...

eral regime they form only 6.7 percent, figures that do not show the real process of democratization and women’s access to polit ...