Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Table 1:Gender empowerment measure (GEM) Region/ GEM Seats in Female Female Ratio of Country Rank parliament legislators, senior ...

Southeast Asia Indonesia 5.9 Malaysia n.a. Myanmar n.a. Philippines n.a. Singapore 5.7 Pacific Australia 19.5 Fiji Islands 20.7 ...

Iran and Afghanistan Democracy ideologies are based on gendered concepts of citizenship. They define a citizen as a free and aut ...

constitute an urgent issue for democracy ideologies. Over two decades of civil war in Afghanistan, and the rule of the Taliban ( ...

and cultural power (Domínguez 1989). For mar- ginalized groups within Israel, the state’s embrace of democracy affords possible ...

women, usually along ethnic (Ashkenazi/Mizrahi, that is, European/Oriental) or national (Palesti- nian/Jewish) lines obscure how ...

Arab States The practices and social implications of divorce and custody are discussed here by looking at how women live with di ...

they had left their land and with whom they had kept up intimate relations. Poor women in town who were cut off from the support ...

to leave her husband is influenced by her chances of remarriage and the fear of losing her children. Only young women without ch ...

quired to negotiate their way through two sets of social and legal systems – the Islamic system, which governs their religious b ...

of shaykhs are willing to assist women, by per- suading the husbands to pronounce †alàq, or by granting a divorce in other circu ...

in 1968 with the advent of the Divorce Act; its pro- visions made divorce easier and less humiliating. Under it, Muslims who agr ...

and go on living a married life. A woman who was divorced on her husband’s initiative had no right to her dowry or her children. ...

grandmothers and grandfathers. Frequently, these are grandmothers and grandfathers living in the countryside, while the parents ...

who remarried have been accused of bigamy (with severe legal and social consequences for them and their families) by the erstwhi ...

marriage and even subsequently, remain similar in many parts of these countries. Variations exist due to class and region and th ...

can succeed in making the wife agree to give up the mahrand sometimes even pay some amount in exchange for a divorce. Post divor ...

selves from the marital bond if it becomes neces- sary, there is today a huge gap between divine principles and reality. In most ...

Bradford, and Glasgow, it is by no means a nation- ally recognized body, at least among Muslims. In fact, a large number of Musl ...

Arab States Domestic violence – acts of violence between two individuals who have had an intimate or a family relationship – enc ...