Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

88). The state women’s organization, the PKK (Family Welfare Organization), established in 1973, and the Dharma Wanita (the orga ...

523). In 1983 Prime Minister Lee Kwang Kyu unleashed the Great Marriage Debate in which he outlined the crisis discourse – Singa ...

M. Stivens, Modernizing the Malay mother, in K. Ram and M. Jolly (eds.), Maternities and modernities. Colonial and postcolonial ...

Studies of domesticity in the Middle East are in part about encounters between European and North American colonial and missiona ...

century and the Sokoto Jihad – a powerful cam- paign of Islamic religious reform that had major impacts on gender relations in t ...

to hold husbands in debt, control children’s labor, and advise and influence male leaders. Images of Hausa women as agents illus ...

religious schools were banned; primary education was made compulsory for both boys and girls; and Western codes of dressing were ...

Bibliography N. Abadan-Unat, The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women, in N. R. Keddie and B. Baron (eds.), ...

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

ing population of displaced and homeless young people in the major cities. The vulnerability of run- away girls, in the absence ...

in with their parents. Remarriage is not stigma- tized, although for those with large numbers of children this may be difficult. ...

wage earners are usually in weaker economic and political positions than men with similar skills. Middle-class women are progres ...

P. Jeffery, Frogs in a well. Indian women in purdah, London 1979, repr. 2000. D. Kandiyoti (ed.), Women, Islam and the state, Ph ...

social pressure for the marriage to succeed and to avoid divorce. Levirate marriages are common, where a widow is remarried to h ...

R. Furth, Marrying the forbidden other. Marriage status and social change in the Futa Jallon Highlands of Guinea, Ph.D. diss., U ...

of continued emotional interdependence (Ka(ıtçı- baçı 1985). In Turkish families, women have the main re- sponsibility for house ...

shares many special rights and obligations with that group. A person’s behavior reflects favorably or unfavorably on that name a ...

with skills needed by the United States. Immigrants made links with persons from their regions of ori- gin, religion, and/or cla ...

Some feel that rules are stricter now than they used to be. “In the 1950s and 1960s,” says one woman, “Arab boys and girls here ...

—— (ed.), Arabic speaking communities in American cities, Staten Island, N.Y. 1974. B. C. Aswad and B. Bilgé (eds.),Family and g ...