Authors: Judith E. Tucker
ISBN-13: 9780520224742, ISBN-10: 0520224744
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Judith E. Tucker is a Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is the author of Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985)and the editor of Arab Women: Old Boundaries, New Frontiers (1993).
"An original, valuable, and important study. . . . This book will quickly establish itself as a key work in the field of Middle East women's studies."Leila Ahmed, author of Women and Gender in Islam
"The history of women in the Middle East is seen from an entirely new perspective in Judith Tucker's rewarding study of Islamic law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Syria and Palestine."Shofar
"Tucker presents a study of the tensions between the two traditions as acted out in the law courts in the Ottoman province of Shams...during the 16th through 18th centuries."S. Bowman, Choice
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | The Law, the Courts, and the Muftis | 1 |
2 | With Her Consent: Marriage | 37 |
3 | Release Her with Kindness: Divorce | 78 |
4 | The Fullness of Affection: Mothering and Fathering | 113 |
5 | If She Were Ready for Men: Sexuality and Reproduction | 148 |
Conclusion | 179 | |
Notes | 187 | |
Glossary | 205 | |
Bibliography | 211 | |
Index | 217 |