Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

attend most institutions of higher learning. Al- though frequently fighting their own battles against patriarchy at home, they w ...

Russians’ own beliefs in gender inequality but more importantly because of their understanding of the role Islam would play in t ...

every attempt was made to Sovietize the Muslim population. Bibliography S. Akiner, Islamic peoples of Soviet Union, London 1986. ...

ence of Islam in British Somaliland, British officials emphasized local traditions and clan differences (Kapteijns 1999b, 237–9) ...

Muslim women and descendants of slaves shifted the meaning of Muslim Swahili identity. Despite increased marginalization under t ...

M. Chanock, Law, custom, and social order. The colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia, Cambridge 1985. A. Conklin, A mission t ...

The Caucasus and Central Asian States To review the interrelations between women, gender, and constitutions, and assess the role ...

welfare, especially visible in the context of Central Asian and Caucasian countries, equality of sexes remained illusionary as h ...

ownership of its provision,” and to achieve this purpose, particular attention should be paid, among other things, to the proces ...

Provincial DPRD, and Regency/Municipal DPRD, for each electoral district, giving consideration to representation of women of at ...

to “the principles of Islamic faith.” Only the con- stitutions of 1977, 1987, and 1990 state explicitly that “women in the Repub ...

Ordinance provided some safeguards for women in the area of divorce law, but the 1962 constitution removed rights to directly vo ...

1985, causing controversy that continued with the subsequent Muslim Women’s Bill, an effort to shore up personal law. Many women ...

tions of equality. Concerning gender, most Muslim societies use a mixture of Islamic contexts and interpretation of Islamic text ...

conflict with the 1990 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, article 24(3), but little has been done to prevent ...

Arab States Democracy is representation for the people by the people. A true democracy must include women who are representative ...

Table 1 examines five different states in terms of external factors, political participation rates of women, and percentage of f ...

World Bank, Gender and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Women and the public sphere, November 2003, http://lnweb ...

Women and democracy There is now a consensus that for a political sys- tem to be called democratic it must have certain characte ...

ties than men. Naturally, this means that the num- bers elected to representative bodies are also low (see Table 1). While women ...