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...Leila Hudson Duke University Press 2006 Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus Leila Hudson ecent historical scholarship on gender and nationalism in the Middle East has...

...İrvin Cemil Schick Increasingly, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, publications appeared in the Ottoman Empire that took issue with traditional norms of gender and sexuality and advocated alternatives. They criticized arranged marriages and supported companionate unions...

.... Savarkar redefined the caste system as the crucible of the Hindu race, its endless proliferation testimony to a history of intermarriage expired in the present age. To reestablish the broken bonds of the Hindu race, Savarkar championed intercaste marriage. He offered the same solution to the “Muslim...

...Geetanjali Srikantan Abstract It has been well documented that the marriage, inheritance, and succession laws of Hindus as a religious community in India are a product of British colonial intervention and engagement with Sanskritic legal traditions. However, what has been relatively ignored...

... with a consideration of how social and economic structures—specifically Iran’s marriage and labor markets—are artificially extending the experience of childhood. Faced with high rates of unemployment, more and more young Iranians are staying at home with their parents as they extend their education well...

... of agonistic feminist politics is Mrinalini Sinha's revealing analysis in Specters of Mother India (2006) of the circumstances surrounding the mobilization of Indian women around the passage of the Child Marriage Restraint Act in colonial India in 1929, which constitutes the second part of my essay. Duke...

.... These essays track the everyday languages and institutions of governance, policing, and morality by working carefully through diverse fields, including legal cases and reasoning, histories of education, dynamics of marriage, arts of linguistic transformation, politics of religious argument, legitimations...

... and social stability gave women an upper hand in economic and personal choices, and within marriages, they could and did move about freely. The matrilineal system not only connected maritime Muslims but also raised serious questions about the Islamic jurisprudential tradition that evolved in the Middle East...

... colonial Indian history Indian nationalism Indian liberalism marriage social reform References Amrith Sunil S. “ Food and Welfare in India, c. 1900–1950 ”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 1010 – 35 . Baden- Powell Henry . Land Systems...

...- Maulana Thanavi describes marriage customs: fense of women's rights in Islamic law, a work inspired [Tlhe women of the family gather and confine the by both his early Deobandi education and his experi- girl in a corner .Etiquette calls for the girl to be ence of debating...

... . ———. “On Torture: Or Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment.” Social Research 63 , no. 4 ( 1996 ): 1081 – 109 . Basu Srimati . “Sexual Property: Staging Rape and Marriage in Indian Law and Feminist Theory.” Feminist Studies 37 , no. 1 ( 2011 ): 185 – 211 . Chowdhury Prem...

..., writ- the wretched women and offering herself in marriage to ten in Marathi, was published in Pune in 1989 under the any willing person. In response to her call, published by title We Made History Too. In many ways the authors Kamble in his magazine, one of his associates, Ganpat- themselves...

... Law of Marriage .” American Journal of Comparative Law 6 ( 1957 ): 503 – 51 . Caste, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Arabness in Southern Arabia Mandana E. Limbert his essay explores the notion of Arabness. It argues...

... for these women. 139/1000 births for India. Dr. Jayawardene feels that (See appendix) though Buddhism was a progressive Traditionally, marriages in movement in the historical context Sri Lanka had been arranged of its...

... read- Novels Bâ’s Mariama On a man she appears to still love despite his having ing of the novel.10 left her for one of their daughter’s best friends Nwachukwu-Agbada and Mule may be jus- after twenty-five years of marriage. However, tifi ed in criticizing Ramatoulaye’s condescend...

... indeed to the mid- by mosques, celebrations of marriages inside the dle-class while many of the early Arab settlers in the mosque, social committees for helping immigrants US hailed from the working class. By imposing “ortho- and so on). dox” practices, South Asians signified their superiority...

...," and "There is No Michel W. Potts, who interviewed Ms. Nilda Place Like Home for Beatings. 'I Addition- Rimonte, the Executive Director of the ally, research data has appeared in shelter sponsored by the Center for the Journal of Marriage and the Family, Pacific-Asian Family. Ms. Rimonte related...

... . “Democratic Ideology in Islamist Opposition? The Muslim Brotherhood's ‘Civil State.’ ” Middle Eastern Studies 45 , no. 2 ( 2009 ): 189 – 205 . Hassan Amro . “Egypt: Coptic Church Rejects Second Marriages Despite Court Ruling.” Los Angeles Times blog , June 1 , 2010...

... by the institu- tion of marriage in South Asian cultures. The respondents Margaret Abraham, Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Vio- range from highly educated professionals with substantial lence Among South Asian Immigrants in the U.S., New...

... not fully take into account the complex familial relations created by the institu- tion of marriage in South Asian cultures. The respondents Margaret Abraham, Speaking...