Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia
By: edited by Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai.
Contributors: Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-; Desai, Manisha.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780815632351
Subjects: Domestic relations -- Middle East; Domestic relations -- South Asia; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Middle East; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disobedient wives and neglectful husbands : marital relations and the first phase of family law reform in Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno; title: Patriarchy, sexuality, and property : the impact of colonial state policies on gender relations in India / Flavia Agnes; title: The monotheisms, patriarchy, and the constitutional right to human dignity in Israel / Frances Raday; title: Legal pluralism versus a uniform civil code : the continuing debates in India / Manisha Desai; title: Institutions and women's rights : religion, the state, and family in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat; title: Struggles over personal status and family law in post-Baathist Iraq / Juan Cole; title: Family, gender, and law in Jordan and Palestine / Lynn Welchman; title: Revisiting the debate on family law in Morocco : context, actors, and discourses / Zakia Salime; title: Straddling CEDAW and the MMA : conflicting visions of women's rights in contemporary Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss; title: Gender and law(s) : moral regulation in contemporary Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman; title: Shifting practices and identities : nontraditional relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis / Frances S. Hasso; title: Afghan refugee women in Iran : revisioning the Afghan family / Homa Hoodfar.