Women, family, and gender in Islamic law

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The work Women, family, and gender in Islamic law represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Women, family, and gender in Islamic law

Statement of responsibility

Judith E. Tucker

Title variation

Women, Family, & Gender in Islamic Law

Creator

• Tucker, Judith E
• Tucker, Judith E

Author

• Tucker, Judith E
• Tucker, Judith E

Subject

• Divorce (Islamic law)
• Domestic relations (Islamic law)
• Married women (Islamic law)
• Women (Islamic law)

Language

eng

Summary

In what ways has Islamic law discriminated against women and privileged men? What rights and power have been accorded to Muslim women, and how have they used the legal system to enhance their social and economic position? In an analysis of Islamic law through the prism of gender, Judith Tucker tackles these complex questions relating to the position of women in Islamic society, and to the ways in which the legal system impacted on the family, property rights, space and sexuality, from classical and medieval times to the present. Working with concepts drawn from feminist legal theory and by using particular cases to illustrate her arguments, the author systematically addresses questions of discrimination and expectation - what did men expect of their womenfolk - and of how the language of the law contributed to that discrimination, infecting the system and all those who participated in it

Member of

• Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
• Themes in Islamic law, 3

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

340.5/9

Index

index present

LC call number

KBP526.3

LC item number

.T83 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Themes in Islamic law

Series volume

3