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Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia / edited by Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gender and globalization.
- Gender and globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Domestic relations--Middle East.
- Domestic relations.
- Domestic relations--South Asia.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Middle East.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Family, gender, & law in a globalizing Middle East & South Asia
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications for gender relations; and the tension between international standards emerging from UN conferences and conventions and various nationalist projects. Employing the frame of globalization, the authors highlight how local and global forces interact and influence the experience and actions of people who engage with the law. By virtue of a "south-south" comparison of two quite similar and culturally linked regions, contributors avoid positing "the West" as a modern telos. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, sociology, and law, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complicated history of jurisprudence with regard to family and gender.
- Contents:
- Disobedient wives and neglectful husbands : marital relations and the first phase of family law reform in Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno
- Patriarchy, sexuality, and property : the impact of colonial state policies on gender relations in India / Flavia Agnes
- The monotheisms, patriarchy, and the constitutional right to human dignity in Israel / Frances Raday
- Legal pluralism versus a uniform civil code : the continuing debates in India / Manisha Desai
- Institutions and women's rights : religion, the state, and family in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
- Struggles over personal status and family law in post-Baathist Iraq / Juan Cole
- Family, gender, and law in Jordan and Palestine / Lynn Welchman
- Revisiting the debate on family law in Morocco : context, actors, and discourses / Zakia Salime
- Straddling CEDAW and the MMA : conflicting visions of women's rights in contemporary Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss
- Gender and law(s) : moral regulation in contemporary Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman
- Shifting practices and identities : nontraditional relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis / Frances S. Hasso
- Afghan refugee women in Iran : revisioning the Afghan family / Homa Hoodfar.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815651482
- 0815651481
- OCLC:
- 759158745
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