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Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990 » (1st Edition)
Authors: Annelies Moors, Julia A. Clancy-Smith (Editor), Israel Gershoni (Editor), Judith E. Tucker (Editor), Charles Tripp
ISBN-13: 9780521483551, ISBN-10: 0521483557
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Annelies Moors
Book Synopsis
Islamic law entitles women to inherit property and to manage their own income. This book examines under what circumstances they claim property rights and when they are prevented from doing so.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Introduction: women and property | 1 |
| Pt. I | Politics, economy and kinship | 15 |
| 2 | The lives of four women: introducing property and politics | 17 |
| 3 | Women and inheritance | 48 |
| Pt. II | The dower | 77 |
| 4 | The dower: marriage, gender and social stratification | 79 |
| 5 | Marriage: the prompt dower | 92 |
| 6 | Repudiation and widowhood: the deferred dower | 127 |
| Pt. III | Paid labour and property | 151 |
| 7 | Poverty, wage labour and property | 153 |
| 8 | Gender and garment production | 190 |
| 9 | Education, professional work and property | 214 |
| 10 | Women and property revisited | 253 |
| References | 261 | |
| Index | 269 |
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