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Women of Jordan

- Islam, Labor, and the Law

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 300 sider

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In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints chat exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes chat 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 that extend the patriarchal power throughout a woman's life, and ultimately deny her full legal competency. Significantly, Sonbol notes that society's accepting as "Islamic" the legal constraints that control women's work constitutes a major barrier to any effort to change them, even though historically the Islamic sharia actually encourages women's work, and despite the fact that Muslim women have contributed materially to their society's

economy. The author covers new ground as she effectively illustrates how Jordanian laws governing gender, family, and work combine with laws and legal philosophies derived from tribal, traditional, Islamic, and modern laws to form a strict patriarchal structure.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal300
  • Udgivelsesdato01-01-2003
  • ISBN139780815629856
  • Forlag Syracuse University Press
  • Nummer i serien429
  • FormatPaperback
  • Udgave0
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt448 g
  • Dybde1,7 cm
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    10 cm
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    14 cm
    20,6 cm

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