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Authors: Susan F. Hirsch, John M. Conley (Editor), William M. O'Barr
ISBN-13: 9780226344645, ISBN-10: 0226344649
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: 1

Author Biography: Susan F. Hirsch

Book Synopsis

Based on field research and court testimony, Hirsch's book debunks the conventional view that women are powerless under Islamic law and challenges the dichotomies through which Islam and gender relations are currently understood.

Booknews

Hirsch (anthropology and women's studies, Wesleyan U.) studies gender relations and marital and divorce disputes and negotiation among Swahili Muslim people in coastal Kenya. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Legal Processes and the Discursive Construction of Gender	16
2	Representations of Swahili Society	36
3	Analyzing Talk about Trouble	62
4	The Discourses of Marital Disputing	80
5	Marital Disputing in Kadhi's Courts	112
6	Indexing Gender: Initial Courtroom Narratives	138
7	Constructing Audience: Interaction in Cases and Mediations	162
8	Portraying Gendered Speakers: Reported Conversations	194
9	Pronouncing and Persevering: Ideology and Metalinguistics in Disputes	220
	Conclusion	240
App. A	Glossary	247
App. B	Features of Transcription	249
App. C	Case Summaries	250
App. D	Kiswahili Texts	257
	Notes	281
	References	335
	Index	357