...Maryam Zehtabi Abstract Child marriage, the union between a child below the age of consent and a spouse who is the same age or older, remains a prevalent practice in Iran. Often these marriages involve young girls betrothed to much older men as a result of economic arrangements between the girl’s...

... of independence and responsibility. Through its deployment, counselors create affective space for single mothers to think beyond pathologizing portrayals of single motherhood in Morocco. Counselors also disrupt the neoliberal focus on calculated, self-interested action by centering “the mother-child couple...

.... Mothers who have more than three children receive no additional financial support. To be eligible, a divorcee has to prove that her ex-husband does not pay child support. 22. According to Article 31 of the 2002 CSA, mothers face criminal liability for failure to register a child, with fines of 300...

... result of a DNA test as evidence of an unlawful sexual relationship and sends the mother to prison (Goodlett 2016 , 29). More important, it is difficult for a single-mother claimant in Morocco to demonstrate that the biological father of her child promised to marry her or to benefit from the DNA...

... . 2011 . Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870–1940 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jalali Reza . 2004 . “ Iran .” In Child Labor: A Global View , edited by Schmitz Cathryne L. , Traver Elizabeth Kimjin , Larson Desi...

... her father’s memories and stories of Kurdistan and Kurds, the stories of her father’s siblings who live overseas, and through Khadivi’s own travels back to Iran in her early childhood with her mother. Khadivi visited Iran only as a very young child and has never been to the Kurdish region with which...

... of age. For anyone concerned about the influence of awards culture, the child in humanitarian discourse, or the false sense of security stamped on global events by films with an “ending,” al-Kateab’s polyphonic audiovisual epistle offers another possibility for documentary film amid crisis. In one...

... social suff ering experienced by infertile Egyptian women in a pronatalist or “child desiring” society (Inhorn 1994; 1996; 2003b). Other scholars have documented the gendered burden of infertility in many parts of the ABBASI-SHAVAZI, INHORN, RAZEGHI-NASRABAD, TOLOO  3 Muslim...

... about children’s dreams and fantasies and explores the process of the child’s expanding consciousness (e.g., “al-Bahr laysa bi-ghaddar” [The Sea is Not Treacherous], “Bayt lana” [A House for Us], and “Yunus al-bahr” [Jonah of the Sea Osman is also a prominent literary critic, and her...

... escapes to the labyrinth tunnels of his mine. Th ere he is haunted by guilt, especially when he hears his daughter is pregnant and obliged to marry Antun Bey for fear of scandal and that Krishab has gone mad. Toward the end of the book, Nicola steals Ilya’s child under the de...

... exception replete with the system of citation Edward Said taught us to recognize: The complement to this cultural and conventional attitude towards death is provided by our complete collapse when death has struck down someone whom we love—a parent or a partner in marriage, a brother or sister, a child...

... insightful re ections on the internal and external con icts shaping women s experiences of love and desire. Another piece in this collection speci cally addressing the challenges faced by Iranian women is Maryam Zehtabi s Child Marriage in Hitaw (1973) by Ali Ashraf Darvishiyan and M d¯ y n (1986...

... intimidating impact on the mother: “When did it all start? I suspect the answer to that question is this: the moment a mother is afraid to answer a young child’s question honestly” ( BTW , 6). Salbi refers to two central traumatic rupture events in July 1979 at different points in the autobiography...

... to infertile women as “barren trees” (126). Motherhood is the main source of a woman’s belonging, adult gender identity, marital stability, family relations, and power. As Göknar writes, women “do not belong unless they have a child or until they have a son” (65). Göknar argues that a woman’s decision to seek...

... of the apparently fundamental changes we are witnessing with regard to family and gender relations? THE MODERN VIEW OF EARLY MARRIAGE “Early” or “child” marriage, whereby either or both the bride and groom (usually the bride) is under the age of eighteen3 remains con- tentious...

.... . . . There is no difference between killing a child in the mother’s womb or after birth” (Erdoğan 2012a ). While not immediately apparent, the argument contains nationalist elements because Erdoğan dismisses the killing of thirty-four people as “collateral damage,” denying any state responsibility and adding to the pain...

..., Technologies, and the Politics of Care, edited by Boris Eileen and Parreñas Rhacel Salazar , 1 – 13 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Dalton Susan E. 2001 . “ Protecting Our Parent-Child Relationships: Understanding the Strengths and Weaknesses of Second-Parent Adoption...

... children, but men have to raise and provide for them. The Abu Shanab campaign is notable for the virtual absence of women, the framing of child-rearing within deeply rural masculine values, and the ambivalent use of humor to emphasize these controversial value systems. It is predicated on the assumption...

... 1998 that compulsory primary education was introduced in Lebanon, and not until aft er 2000 that serious consideration was given to the rights of the child and to child labor. As has occurred in many countries (and certainly in most Arab countries), the racialization of domestic work is merely...