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States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco - Couverture souple

Charrad, Mounira M.

 
9780520225763: States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520225767 ISBN 13 : 9780520225763
Editeur : University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context of state power in various societies.

Charrad argues that many analysts miss what is going on in Islamic societies because they fail to recognize the logic of the kin-based model of social and political life, which she contrasts with the Western class-centered model. In a skillful synthesis, she shows how the logic of Islamic legal codes and kin-based political power affect the position of women. These provide the key to Charrad's empirical puzzle: why, after colonial rule, women in Tunisia gained broad legal rights (even in the absence of a feminist protest movement) while, despite similarities in culture and religion, women remained subordinated in post-independence Morocco and Algeria. Charrad's elegant theory, crisp writing, and solid scholarship make a unique contribution in developing a state-building paradigm to discuss women's rights.

This book will interest readers in the fields of sociology, politics, law, women's studies, postcolonial studies, Middle Eastern studies, Middle Eastern history, French history, and Maghrib studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mounira M. Charrad is on the faculty of the Department of Sociology and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520225767
ISBN 13 
9780520225763
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
364
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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