Women, family, and gender in Islamic law / Judith E. Tucker.
2008
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Author
Title
Women, family, and gender in Islamic law / Judith E. Tucker.
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Call Number
KBP526.3 .T835 2008
Former Call Number
Islam 332 T791 2008
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780521830447 (hbk.)
0521830443 (hbk.)
9780521537476 (pbk.)
0521537479 (pbk.)
0521830443 (hbk.)
9780521537476 (pbk.)
0521537479 (pbk.)
Description
x, 255 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)221147053
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and index.
Series
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Table of Contents
Maps
1
Introduction
1
Law, women, and gender
2
Islamic law
11
Islamic law and gender
24
2
Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain
38
Islamic marriage: the legal tradition
41
Islamic marriage: pre-twentieth-century practices
59
Reform and marriage
65
Recent developments
77
Conclusion
82
3
Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights
84
Islamic divorce: the legal tradition
86
Islamic divorce: pre-twentieth-century practices
104
Reform and divorce
111
Recent developments
124
Conclusion
130
4
Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying
133
Legal capacity and the Islamic juridical tradition
135
The pre-twentieth-century legal subject
149
Reform and the legal subject
159
Recent developments
160
Conclusion
172
5
Woman and man in gendered space: submitting
175
Space, sexuality, and the Islamic juridical tradition
177
The regulation of space and sexuality prior to the twentieth century
191
Reform, space, and sexuality
200
Recent developments
206
Conclusion
215
6
Conclusion
218
Glossary
226
Bibliography
232
Suggestions for further reading
244
Index
247