|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
- Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809),
'The Age of Reason'
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10140558
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 54 | | Price Range: | | $0.07 - 0.07 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 19 | | Price Range: | | $0.05 - 0.06 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 75 | | Price Range: | | $0.07 - 0.07 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 101 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 37 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 65 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 388 pages
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520225767
Release Date: Jan 12, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies.
Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights.
This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.
| | | | From The Publisher
At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Be the first to rate this book! Number of Reviews: 0
| | | |  | | | | List of Maps and Tables | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Note on Foreign Terms and Transliteration | | | Introduction | 1 | | Pt. 1 | Similarities: Common Heritage of the Maghrib | 15 | | 1 | State Formation in Kin-Based Societies | 17 | | 2 | Islam and Family Law: An Unorthodox View | 28 | | 3 | Women Ally with the Devil: Gender, Unity, and Division | 51 | | 4 | Men Work with Angels: Power of the Tribe | 68 | | Pt. 2 | Historical Differences | 85 | | 5 | The Precolonial Polity: National Variations | 87 | | 6 | Colonial Rule: French Strategies | 114 | | Pt. 3 | Three Paths to Nation-State and Family Law | 145 | | 7 | Palace, Tribe, and Preservation of Islamic Law: Morocco | 147 | | 8 | Elite Divisions and the Law in Gridlock: Algeria | 169 | | 9 | State Autonomy from Tribe and Family Law Reform: Tunisia | 201 | | Conclusion: State-Building, Family Law, and Women's Rights | 233 | | Glossary | 243 | | Notes | 247 | | Selected Bibliography | 301 | | Author Index | 319 | | Subject Index | 327 |
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Nonfiction > Current Events > Civil Rights & Liberties
All Topics > Nonfiction > Politics > General
All Topics > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > General
All Topics > Nonfiction > Women's Studies > General
All Topics > History > Africa > Algeria
All Topics > History > Africa > Morocco
All Topics > History > Africa > Tunisia
| | | | These specific items are very similiar:
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco , by Mounira M. Charrad
| | | | | | People like you also bought:
Morocco since 1830: A History, by C.R. R. Pennell
Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism, by Abdellah Hammoudi
In the Shadow of the Sultan: Culture, Power, and Politics in Morocco, Vol. 31
Algeria,1830-2000: A Short History, by Benjamin Stora
Unknown Title
Unbowed: An Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism, by Khalida Messaoudi
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
The Ten Things You Can't Say in America 1 ED, by Larry Elder
On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill
Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery, by David Horowitz
Fantasia : An Algerian Cavalcade, Vol. 1 First American edition, by Assia Djebar
A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period 3RD, by Jamil M. Abun-Nasr
Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society, by Hisham B. Sharabi
| | | | | | Keywords
Sociology - General, Women's rights, Africa, North, History, Muslim women, Government policy, Politics - Current Events, Political Science, Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights, Government (non-U.S.), Women's Studies, Social Science, Politics and government, History, Government policy, Women's rights, Africa, North, Muslim women, Domestic relations (Islamic law), Tribes, Sociology - General, Women's rights, Africa, North, History, Muslim women, Government policy, Politics - Current Events, Political Science, Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights, Government (non-U.S.), Women's Studies - General, Social Science
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
