Farah Chowdhury

Islam and Women's Income

Dowry and Law in Bangladesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. Taking a socio-legal approach, it analyses the changing nature of the dowry practice and its relation to women's increasing paid labour force activity. Despite anti-dowry legislation, it is argued here that the dowry system continues in the form of the appropriation of wives' income. The work calls for legal recognition of this action and the amendment of the Dowry Prohibition Act as a result of the changing social realities that are taking place in the lives of Bangladeshi women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138228467
• ISBN-10: 113822846X
• Artikelnr.: 47772881

Autorenporträt

Farah Deeba Chowdhury is a Scholar in Residence at the Global Labour Research Centre, York University, Canada. She has served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and has also held an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University, Canada. She specializes in the areas of Islam, gender and law; gender and work; gender and politics; and gender and development. She has published widely on these topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................
Introduction
Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
Equality Debates in the West
Equality Within Islam: Formal and Substantive
Methodology...............................................................................................................
Overview of Remaining
Chapters...................................................................................
Women and Islam in Bangladesh
The Politics of Islam in Bangladeshi Society
Women, Islam and Society in Bangladesh
Women in the Popular Books on Islam in
Bangladesh................................................................
Misinterpretation of Islam and Husband-Wife Relationships in
Bangladesh................................
Conclusion..............................................................................................................
Muslim Family Law in
Bangladesh.............................................................................................
Dower and Maintenance in
Bangladesh.......................................................................................
Divorce.........................................................................................................................
Polygamy..................................................................................................................
Child Custody and
Guardianship....................................................................................
Inheritance
Law....................................................................................................
Conclusion......................................................................................................
CEDAW, Islamic Law and Women in
Bangladesh.........................................................................
CEDAW and Islamic
Law.......................................................................................................
CEDAW and Muslim
Countries............................................................................................
CEDAW, Islam and Politics in
Bangladesh...........................................................................
Same Responsibilities Between Men and
Women................................................................
Conclusion.........................................................................................................
Dowry, Women and Law in
Bangladesh.......................................................................................
The Dowry System in South
Asia...............................................................................................
The Emergence of Dowry in
Bangladesh..................................................................................
Men's Expectations from Their Wives or Wives' Family During
Marriage......................................
Dowry and Law in
Bangladesh......................................................................................
Conclusion.........................................................................................................
Women, Income and Dowry in
Bangladesh..............................................................................................................
Women and
Employment........................................................................................................
Women's Income and Dowry in
Bangladesh.............................................................................
The Strategies That Husbands Employ to Control Wives'
Income................................................
Conclusion.............................................................................................................
Conclusion............................................................................................................................