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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781900303321

Titolo

Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8156-5148-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Gender and globalization

Altri autori (Persone)

CunoKenneth M. <1950->

DesaiManisha

Disciplina

346.5401/5

Soggetti

Domestic relations - Middle East

Domestic relations - South Asia

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - Middle East

Women - Legal status, laws, etc - South Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.