Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics

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Suad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī
BRILL, 2003 - Social Science - 837 pages
Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islamic cultures around the world.

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... Systems Sahelian West Africa and North Central Africa (Chad/Sudan) (Mirjam de Bruijn) .................. East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific (Mina ... Legal System Afghanistan (Nasrine Gross) Arab States (Anna Würth) ...
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About the author (2003)

Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has published Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (Syracuse University Press,1999), and Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000).

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TitleEncyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics
Volume 2 of ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES
Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics
Gale virtual reference library
EditorsSuad Joseph, Afsāna Naǧmābādī
Editionillustrated
PublisherBRILL, 2003
ISBN9004128182, 9789004128187
Length837 pages
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