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...Saumya Saxena Shah Bano was sixty-three years old when her husband divorced her in 1978. He refused to pay maintenance to her beyond a period of three months ( iddat ), claiming his obligation extended no further than three menstrual cycles of his wife’s. While the court decided in favor...

... of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its...

... Studies of South Asian, and particularly Indian, middle-class family structure indicate that the prevalent ideal is that of a joint family structure. The filial and fraternal relationships are dominant in this structure, and the husband-wife relationship, regarded as the core...

... was also linked to the normativ~ the rise of the joint-family, requirements of absolute chastity the concentration of wealth and and devotion to one's husband property in the hands of a par• that was expected of all...

... continues at present and Sav• water spigot, however, often doesn't itribai, about whom this is work or doesn't provide enough written, and her husband were water, ·apd·sa slum dwellers must two such Chambars from the filch water from the city water...

... to write as well.' Obedience to the Man If a female child was taught how to read and write as well, The husband in the old aristocratic society virtually had care should be taken so that she would only be able to write the status of God for a woman and, therefore, it was incum- simple letters...

... itaal roon eloquence (aJiahanho). The reasoning from a male Wm duni la kah iibsa&yam nala ogqysiin perspective is that if a woman is courageous she will The British, the Ethiopians, and the Italians are fight her husband, if she is generous she will give squabbling...

.... Later, as indicated in the article separates the two communities. below, the husband may help out, but the According to the President of the Los primary operational responsibility of the Angeles Bhakta Association, between 600 - motel may always fall...

... Marital holds and keeps the Sri Lankan audience hooked on a is Wfe’s formula has to do with the articulation and circulation Husband God (1964) of certain desires. As a basic generalization it is correct There is one heaven for woman to say...

... in non-agricuttural, non-rural situations. The fewer women known as khanawals, for factory workers. Most of the Sugao women in an activity (for example, medicine, law, politics), the higher the social had moved to the city with their husbands and, in keeping with village recognition of that work...

... and an impressive figure in public. But at her husband and three children and has been living in home he was a domestic tyrant. For example, he used exile in Germany since 1986. Her asylum proceedings to deceive my mother with other women. She...

... Although I generally agree with these crit- the husbands who remarried and their new ics’ concerns, I fi nd some weaknesses in their ap- wives. However, few critics have acknowledged proach as well as in other scholars’ responses to the specifi c dimensions of the epistolary genre, their analyses...

..., and the State,” Middle East Report, no. 219 6.  Ibid., 221. (2001): 26 – 28. and almost undisputed power of fiqh-based the roles of lover and betrayed husband. Each 676...

... a orl nhrhsada nintermediary. an as husband but her Turkmen on herself rely to products the had her this, sell not despite could woman yet house- the budget, in hold role significant a played pro- Carpet duction carpets. making and from place, moving to was place family the when yurt packing the and away...

... of collective action is the only one of its kind in so burdened by misfortune that, when her mother-in- this volume, it would be a mistake to assume from this law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, husband, and son died that poor people rarely engage in organized resistance. in succession, she never once...

... of their tivities would make it difficult personal property by a variety of for women's leaders to attack extra-legal means by their husbands: Hindu law, Islamic law or the caste beating, brutality and most bar• system, each of which was a barous of all, wife-burning...

... included only movable gifts (such as jewelry, from her late husband, as some elite women18 clothes, utensils) that she received from her par- did, she would be restricted in her freedom to ents, brothers, and other relatives at the time of use...

... not claim “objectivity.” Rather, the women’s sto- in dealing with their husbands. Mothers and then their ries, she reports, stayed with her for days after the inter- daughters may learn to blame men for all family prob- views. In studies where the author focuses on a limited lems. number...

...- approval of their male guardian (husband, fa- tom involving the possession of an individual 31 34   ther, brother...

.... “improprieties,” wore tight clothing, or talked freely Although in the case of Iranian refugees loyalties with men. One anonymous story depicted a refugee to an imagined cultural collective might be seriously woman who has separated from her husband and challenged given the painful remembrances...