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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 283–305.
Published: 01 November 2015
... with a focus on the impact of European medicine and redefinitions of evidence and expertise. Through case studies drawn from judicial archives and published jurisprudence, this study traces the paradoxical effects of colonial medicalization on Muslim women’s divorce based on forced or failed consummation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 137–139.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Frances S. Hasso Khul‘ Divorce in Egypt: Public Debates, Judicial Practices, and Everyday Life , Sonneveld Nadia . Cairo; New York : The American University in Cairo Press , 2012 . 229 pages. ISBN: 978-977-416-484-12 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 108–115.
Published: 01 November 2005
... COMMUNICATIONS
Divorced From Justice
Farida Deif
t will come as no surprise to many JMEWS readers that discriminatory
Ipersonal status laws throughout the Middle East and North Africa have
denied women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 306–324.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., everyone’s always looking at divorcées and widows: she’s gone, she’s driven off, she’s gotten into the car. . . . That yes—I’m with my mother, I’m with my brothers. . . . I’m on my own—no! Because they’ll say and the neighbors will say, what, she went on her own? But she’s a divorcée.” Divorced and widowed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412065.
Published: 19 September 2024
... are formally wed. However, this love, whether in formal or informal marriages, does not necessarily entail a deep bond between partners who share their most intimate feelings. Marriage—whether formal or informal—is perceived as fragile, not a lifelong commitment. The rates of divorce in the countries surveyed...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 2–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... women’s requests for Christian burial rites. This study shows that in some cases the sharia courts offered those converted women a legal option for divorce that was absent in Armenian canon law. The products of these conversions were hybrid Armenian-Muslim families, which challenge the often static...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 264–282.
Published: 01 November 2020
... narratives describing marital practices: bride price, divorce, polygyny, and early marriage. The article confronts the discourse of Ghagar and non-Ghagar about the position of women within Ghagar communities. It hypothesizes that representations of gender specificities among Ghagar communities may...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., with activists arguing that women are unduly disadvantaged in relation to marriage, divorce, and the custody of children by the personal status laws of the eighteen recognized religious communities, including Christians and Muslims. A civil marriage, by contrast, is a marriage that takes place outside...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 102–104.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and divorce…” (12).
The first chapter, “Transacting Marriage,” addresses the parallel
between contracting marriage and buying a slave. It discusses consent to
marriage, the marriage contract, and the dower. While everyone agreed
that fathers had the power of compulsion over children of both sexes...
Journal Article
Yemeni Women’s Economic Empowerment during Conflict: Between Transient Change and Masculine Backlash
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412169.
Published: 19 September 2024
... on the front lines of the armed con ict. As a consequence of both phenomena, increased empowerment of women and increased domestic violence against them, divorce rates have increased. Women who otherwise would not have had the choice are now breaking out of unhappy relationships thanks to their economic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 107–134.
Published: 01 July 2014
... relationship, or a faster divorce from
a recalcitrant husband (Hasso 2011, 133, 142). My argument emphasizes
that patriarchies are malleable and plural and shows that women and
rights activists unintentionally produce and reinforce them in a variety
of bargains. It also shows how...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 416–418.
Published: 01 November 2016
... status law, including divorce, marriage, and other family-related contracts, and its introduction of further legal protection for women. Elliott found that while the Mudawwana does include some additional protections for women, their rights, and their property, women enjoy these protections only...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 102–104.
Published: 01 November 2006
... of survey research involving 200
participants, while the historical section provides a useful short review
of the status of women in Egyptian law, as well as the process by which
the so-called “Law One,” a large-scale revision of the law of marriage and
divorce favorable to the interests of women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
.... The first women who took paid jobs were either
rural women who had emigrated to urban areas or women who lived in
the suburbs of big cities. Most of these women were poor (divorced or
widows) and not proud of their jobs (cf. Barkallil 1990; Filali Meknassi
1994). Although upper and middle classes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 106–109.
Published: 01 July 2011
...” (marriage, divorce, inheritance, child custody), leaving criminal,
commercial, and administrative matters to be adjudicated on the basis
of Western legal codes. Kholoussy also shows how the dynamic ele-
ments of shari‘a still regnant in the colonial era and in the more limited
domain of personal...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 419–421.
Published: 01 November 2016
... a wider context for his study. Although Cuno’s history encompasses the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it also provides the information needed to understand marriage and divorce in contemporary Egypt. Chapters 1 and 2 address the changing political, social, and demographic factors that influenced...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 130–131.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., the government works very hard to strengthen the family institution. Officials consult with couples to decrease divorce rates, for example. Erdoğan regularly advises young people to marry as early as possible and have at least three children. Such a discourse especially weakens divorced women and women who want...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Press , 2014 . 300 pages. isbn 9780815633501 Gender and Divorce Law in North Africa: Sharia, Custom, and the Personal Status Code in Tunisia . Voorhoeve Maaike . London : Tauris , 2014 . 338 pages. isbn 9781780765297 The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 March 2007
... worked to keep her
family together and maintain their independence, defending her at-
titude thus:
Work isn’t shameful. I encourage women to work and to struggle A
woman shouldn’t depend completely on a man Maybe her husband
will come and tell her, “You are divorced. Goodbye!” He...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 423–448.
Published: 01 November 2021
... : 107 – 34 . Hatem Mervat . 1992 . “ Economic and Political Liberalization in Egypt and the Decline of State Feminism .” International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 , no. 2 : 231 – 51 . Htun Mala . 2003 . Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin...
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