Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the LawSyracuse University Press, 1 ian. 2003 - 314 pagini In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints chat exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes chat permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors that extend the patriarchal power throughout a woman's life, and ultimately deny her full legal competency. Significantly, Sonbol notes that society's accepting as "Islamic" the legal constraints that control women's work constitutes a major barrier to any effort to change them, even though historically the Islamic sharia actually encourages women's work, and despite the fact that Muslim women have contributed materially to their society's economy. The author covers new ground as she effectively illustrates how Jordanian laws governing gender, family, and work combine with laws and legal philosophies derived from tribal, traditional, Islamic, and modern laws to form a strict patriarchal structure. |
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Introduction Women in Jordan Today | |
Background Qadis Ashair and Modern Law | 17 |
Womens History and Work | 52 |
Women and Work in Jordan Today | 81 |
Laws of Guardianship and the Construction of Gender | 113 |
Marriage Obedience and Work | 147 |
Honor Crimes | 181 |
Regarding Work and the Modern Jordanian Woman | 210 |
What Next? | 247 |
Notes | 261 |
Glossary | 271 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Ind | 283 |
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