Judith E. Tucker

Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780521537476
• ISBN-10: 0521537479
• Artikelnr.: 23820373

Autorenporträt

Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History in the Department of History and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Her previous publications include Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985) and In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain
3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights
4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying
5. Woman and man in gendered space: submitting.