Title |
Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia [electronic resource] / edited by Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai. |
Edition |
1st ed. |
OCLC |
EBC3410044 |
ISBN |
9780815632351 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780815651482 (e-book) |
Publisher |
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009. |
Description |
1 online resource (xx, 308 p.) |
LC Subject heading/s |
Domestic relations -- Middle East.
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Domestic relations -- South Asia.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Middle East.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Asia.
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Other Genre heading/s |
Electronic books
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
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