Women, family, and gender in Islamic law

Tucker, Judith E. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780521830447 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521830443 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780521537476 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521537479 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-246) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction -- Law, women, and gender -- Islamic law -- Islamic law and gender -- 2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain -- Islamic marriage: the legal tradition -- Islamic marriage: pre-twentieth-century practices -- Reform and marriage -- Recent developments -- 3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights -- Islamic divorce: the legal tradition -- Islamic divorce: pre-twentieth-century practices -- Reform and divorce -- Recent developments -- 4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying -- Legal capacity and the Islamic juridical tradition -- The pre-twentieth-century legal subject -- Reform and the legal subject -- Recent developments --