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Women of Jordan : Islam, labor & the law / Amira El Azhary Sonbol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sonbol, Amira El Azhary, author.
- Series:
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
- Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Economic conditions.
- Jordan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints that exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work.
- Contents:
- Sonbol_Wom-Cvr001
- WOMEN_OF_JORDAN_FW.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780815655763
- 0815655762
- OCLC:
- 1311971053
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