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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 July 2015
... existing law rather than deriving it from canonical sources. His evidence is convincing, and it will be interesting to see Sadeghi’s (or others’) attempts to apply the model to other types of legal questions. Although the book does not aim to position itself in literature on women and gender in Islam...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 122–126.
Published: 01 March 2006
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Family, Law, and Politics
Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xxviii+837. US$326
Reviewed by S. Margot Finn, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
The first two volumes of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and
Islamic Cultures (EWIC) offer a guide...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 102–104.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Louise Halper Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform , Welchman Lynn , ed. London & New York : Zed Books Ltd , 2004 . 300 pp. $26.95 Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 102 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 104–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Khanum Shaikh Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law and Society , Souaiaia Ahmed E. . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2008 . Pp. xiv, 195 . ISBN 978-0-7914-7397-9 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 104 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of Islamic Law:
A Look at the Conference on
“Women’s Rights: Beyond Rhetoric”
Naazneen Diwan, University of California, Los Angeles
he Los Angeles Muslim community, positioned in a Western me-
Ttropolis, thriving with intersectional views of transnational...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Zahia Smail Salhi Polygamy and Law in Contemporary Saudi Arabia , Yamani Maha A. Z. . Reading : Ithaca Press , 2008 . Pp. xii, 275 . ISBN 978-0-86372-326-1 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010 134 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 6:1...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 103–106.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Azza Basarudin BOOK REVIEWS mn 103
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Family, Gender, and Law in a
Globalizing Middle East and South Asia
Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai, eds...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 51–77.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in modern law and society as both a promise of lifelong companionship and a private institution that threatens to close a woman off from her other relationships, especially those with her female friends, and thereby from her means of engaging in the ethical work of developing a pious self. It also reads...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 30–53.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Nadine Adel Sinno Suad Amiry’s Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries (Pantheon Books, 2004) describes the difficult predicament of life under military occupation in Ramallah. Using wit and humor, Amiry recounts her stifling existence during curfews and heavy shelling, her terrifying...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2013
... laboring experiences? How might a focus on subjectivity help us
to better account for the forms of agency sex workers enact, and their
understandings of their transnational circumstances?
Between Feminism and Islam:
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Fatima Sadiqi; Moha Ennaji The Moroccan feminist movement has greatly feminized and democratized the public sphere in this country. An example of such a feminization is the recent 2004 Family Law reforms, which constitute the culmination of a long trajectory during which decisionmakers, political...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Michelle Hartman Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries , Amiry Suad . New York : Pantheon Books , 2005 . Pp. 224. ISBN 0-375-42379-6 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 BOOK REVIEWS 141...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 119–121.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Najwa al-Qattan “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo , Semerdjian Elyse . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . 247 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3173-6 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 419–421.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Mary Ann Fay Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Egypt . Cuno Kenneth M. . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press , 2015 . 305 pages. isbn 978081563392 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 315–317.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Elyse Semerdjian Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure . Azam Hina . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 270 pages. isbn 9781107094246. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 In her detailed study...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 292–313.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., Morocco, and Algeria. Analysis of Islamic jurisprudence and opinions, court decisions, and state laws since 1999 shows that the crisis of abandoned children combined with the biological truth revealed by DNA testing have helped produce a paradigm shift. Islamic legal opinions now argue for the need...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 206–208.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in an Early Islamic Society . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt adds to research in medieval social history, the history of families, Jewish law, and women’s and gender studies. Krakowski’s work offers refreshing insights into Jewish family life, women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2022
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in A Delicate Balancing Act: Women’s Rights and US Military Intervention in the Arab World
> Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1. Jordan and fluctuations in women’s rights. Note: We use Cingranelli and Richards’s CIRI Human Rights Dataset . A score of 0 indicates that women’s political rights were not guaranteed by law during a given year; a score of 1, that they were guaranteed in law but severely prohibited
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (1): 24–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Nahda Shehada Based on 14 months of fieldwork, this paper examines the influence of social norms, individual agency, and historical contingency on the practice of House of Obedience ( bayt al-ta‘a ) in the shari‘a courts of the Gaza Strip. It argues that the text of Islamic family law is only one...
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