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Women, property and Islam : Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990
- Title
- Women, property and Islam : Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990 / Annelies Moors.
- Author
- Moors, Annelies.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ1728.5.Z9 N336 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 274 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Middle East studies ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge Middle East studies ; 3.
- Subjects
- Women, Palestinian Arab > West Bank > Nablus Region > Economic conditions > Case studies
- Women, Palestinian Arab > West Bank > Nablus Region > Social conditions > Case studies
- Women's rights > West Bank > Nablus Region > Case studies
- Right of property (Islamic law)
- Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: women and property -- Pt. I. Politics, economy and kinship. 2. The lives of four women: introducing property and politics. 3. Women and inheritance -- Pt. II. The dower. 4. The dower: marriage, gender and social stratification. 5. Marriage: the prompt dower. 6. Repudiation and widowhood: the deferred dower -- Pt. III. Paid labour and property. 7. Poverty, wage labour and property. 8. Gender and garment production. 9. Education, professional work and property. 10. Women and property revisited.
- ISBN
- 0521474973
- 0521483557 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94041373
- OCLC
- ocm31411458
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries