Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

Consequently, research in several Arab countries highlights the prevalence of domestic violence, the strategies developed by wom ...

Demographic traits The 2001 census indicated that the Muslim pop- ulation in Canada stood at 569,645, representing 2 percent of ...

violence directed at women for violating religious and cultural norms have been isolated (Hogben 1991). The Ontario Human Rights ...

stream secular Canada are two significant factors that have shaped the experience of Muslim com- munity life in Canada. These tw ...

the privacy of the family, there can be no meaning- ful social discussion. Bibliography A. M. Alikhanov-Avarski In the mountains ...

term “domestic violence” is not used in juridical practice. “Not a single case of family violence that we investigated ever reac ...

the rape of a wife cannot be considered as an assault! Thereafter, punishing her becomes a right for men” (Ardalan and Khaksar 1 ...

tions especially for widows to survive and feed their children.” The Human Rights Watch report of Sep- tember 2002 on West Afgha ...

The location of Muslims within Israeli society helps to contextualize this complex phenomenon. Between 1948 and 1966, Palestinia ...

Palestinian women in Israel, working together and at times in coalition with Jewish Israeli femi- nists and/or members of the an ...

to bar a man from his legal right to a second wife. When any condition was violated it led automati- cally to divorce. However, ...

Yemen and Jordan, are regions that have large pop- ulations of recently sedentary Arab tribes and are best understood in that co ...

Division suggested that domestic violence occurs in approximately 80 percent of the country’s house- holds (ADB 2000). An Asian ...

wife” (Ali and Naz 1998, 118). Lack of women’s rights to divorce perpetuates an indentured rela- tionship in a marital contract ...

gender violence in the private sphere that includes sexual assault, psychological torment, and depriva- tion of the capacity to ...

bers. Alongside battery, rape creates a climate of terror and oppression in the domestic sphere that damages both physical and m ...

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Human Rights Dialogue, Violence against women, Series 2, 10 (Fall 2003), & ...

the same roof is subject to abuse, and notification is made either by the victim or by the public prose- cutor, a justice of the ...

The Caucasus This entry deals mainly with Azerbaijan. This is because of the shortage of relevant scholarship on the rest of the ...

future, therefore, the construction of women’s identity through their domesticity will continue throughout the Muslim Caucasus, ...