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

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

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gender and globalization
Gender and globalization.
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.
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Subject Domestic relations -- Middle East.
Domestic relations.
Middle East.
Domestic relations -- South Asia.
South Asia.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Middle East.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Asia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Cuno, Kenneth M., 1950-
Desai, Manisha.
Cover Title Family, gender, & law in a globalizing Middle East & South Asia
Other Form: Print version: Family, gender, and law in a globalizing Middle East and South Asia. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009039475
ISBN 9780815651482 (electronic book)
0815651481 (electronic book)
9780815632351 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0815632355