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Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Amira Sonbol
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Description for Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Paperback. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 296 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; 1FBP; HBJF1; JFSJ1; JFSR2; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
An incisive study of the past, present, and future of Jordanian and Palestinian women women and issues of employment, education, human rights, Islamic law, and legal practice. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors which extend the patriarchal power throughout an Arab and Muslim woman's life, and ultimately deny ... Read more
An incisive study of the past, present, and future of Jordanian and Palestinian women women and issues of employment, education, human rights, Islamic law, and legal practice. Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors which extend the patriarchal power throughout an Arab and Muslim woman's life, and ultimately deny ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815629856
SKU
V9780815629856
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About Amira Sonbol
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol is associate professor of Islamic history, law, and society at Georgetown University. She is the author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism; The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922; and editor of Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, all published by Syracuse University Press.
Reviews for Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Amira Sonbol's book is the best of its kind. She sets out to describe a major problem and then gives solutions to that problem within the ethos and parameters of that society....A most important work. - Afaf Marsot, author of Women and Men in Eighteenth-Century Egypt