MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012010139
003 DLC
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008 120307s2012 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012010139
020 $a9781611682793
020 $a9781611682809
020 $a9781611682816 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aK644$b.S45 2012
082 00 $a323.3/4091767$223
245 00 $aSelf-determination and women's rights in Muslim societies /$cedited by Chitra Raghavan and James P. Levine.
260 $aWaltham, Mass. :$bBrandeis University Press,$cc2012.
300 $axxix, 338 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aBrandeis series on gender, culture, religion, and law
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe politics of abortion policy in the heterogeneous "muslim world" / by Anissa Hølie -- Promoting a violence against women law in Morocco : legislative advocacy / by Grassroots-level NGOs / by Saida Kouzzi with Stephanie Willman Bordat -- No way out : the dual subordination of Muslim women in Indian legal culture / by Aziza Ahmed -- Reconsidering talaq : marriage, divorce, and sharia reform in the Republic of Maldives / by Anthony Marcus -- Female circumcision in Southeast Asia since the coming of Islam / by William G. Clarence-Smith -- The Moudawana and rural marital relationships : reformed or resolute? / by Katja Zvan Elliott -- Negotiating female genital cutting (Sunat) in Southern Thailand / by Claudia Merli -- The marriage contract in the Maghreb : challenges and opportunities for women's rights / by Stephanie Willman Bordat with Saida Kouzzi -- Unsatisfactory aspects of women's rights to property in Uganda and proposals for reform / by Anthony Luyirika Kafumbe -- Triangulating reform in family law : the state, religion, and women's rights in comparative perspective / by Yøksel Sezgin -- Contemporary Iranian feminisms : definitions, narratives, and identity / by Roja Fazaeli.
650 0 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zIslamic countries.
650 0 $aWomen's rights$zIslamic countries.
650 0 $aWomen's rights$xReligious aspects$xIslam.
650 0 $aEquality before the law$zIslamic countries.
700 1 $aRaghavan, Chitra.
700 1 $aLevine, James P.