Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law
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 E. Tucker tackles these complex questions relating to the position of women in Islamic society, and to the ways in which the legal system shaped the family, property rights, space, and sexuality, from...
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An exploration of Islamic law from the perspective of women and gender.
Maps1 Introduction 1Law, women, and gender 2Islamic law 11Islamic law and gender 242 Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain 38Islamic marriage: the legal tradition 41Islamic marriage: pre-twentieth-century practices 59Reform and marriage 65Recent developments 77Conclusion 823 Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights 84Islamic divorce: the legal tradition 86Islamic divorce: pre-twentieth-century practices 104Reform and divorce 111Recent developments 124Conclusion 1304 Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying 133Legal capacity and the Islamic juridical tradition 135The pre-twentieth-century legal subject 149Reform and the legal subject 159Recent developments 160Conclusion 1725 Woman and man in gendered space: submitting 175Space, sexuality, and the Islamic juridical tradition 177The regulation of space and sexuality prior to the twentieth century 191Reform, space, and sexuality 200Recent developments 206Conclusion 2156 Conclusion 218Glossary 226Bibliography 232Suggestions for further reading 244Index 247
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