States and women's rights : the making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco /

States and women's rights : the making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco /

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Author / Creator:Charrad, M. (Mounira)
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 341 pages) : maps
Language:English
Subject:
Women's rights -- Africa, North -- History.
Muslim women -- Government policy -- Africa, North -- History.
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- Africa, North -- History.
Tribes -- Africa, North -- History.
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Muslim women -- Government policy.
Politics and government
Tribes.
Women's rights.
Africa, North -- Politics and government.
North Africa.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115092
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ISBN:9780520935471
0520935470
0585389152
9780585389158
0520073231
9780520073234
0520225767
9780520225763
1597349208
9781597349208
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Charrad, M. (Mounira). States and women's rights. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520073231
Table of Contents:
  • Similarities: Common Heritage of the Maghrib
  • State Formation in Kin-Based Societies
  • States, Nations, and Local Solidarities
  • Central/Local Tension in the History of the Maghrib
  • The "Republics of Cousins" in Politics
  • Islam and Family Law: An Unorthodox View
  • The Law in Islam
  • Islamic Family Law
  • Customary Law
  • Women Ally with the Devil: Gender, Unity, and Division
  • Men as Unity
  • Women as Division
  • Marriage Alliances: Ideology and Reality
  • Veils and Walls
  • Men Work with Angels: Power of the Tribe
  • Ties That Bind: Tribal Solidarity
  • Tribes, Islamic Unity, and Markets
  • Tribes and Central Authority
  • Historical Differences
  • The Precolonial Polity: National Variations
  • Tunisia: Early Development of Centralized Institutions
  • Algeria: Tribal Isolation and Weak State
  • Morocco: Land of Government Versus Land of Dissidence
  • Family Law as Mirror of the Polity
  • Colonial Rule: French Strategies
  • Form of Colonial Domination
  • Colonial Manipulation of Family Law
  • Three Paths to Nation-State and Family Law
  • Palace, Tribe, and Preservation of Islamic Law: Morocco
  • Coalition between Palace and Tribe (1940s-50s)
  • Islamic Family Law Preserved: Choice of the Monarchy (1950s)
  • Elite Divisions and the Law in Gridlock: Algeria
  • Partial Reliance on Kin-Based Groups (1950s-60s)
  • Family Law Held Hostage to Political Divisions (1950s-80s)
  • State Autonomy from Tribe and Family Law Reform: Tunisia
  • State Autonomy from Tribes (1930s-50s)
  • The Transformation of Family Law (1930s-50s).

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