Marriage, Law and Modernity

Marriage, Law and Modernity
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781474276122
ISBN-13 : 1474276121
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Synopsis Marriage, Law and Modernity by : Julia Moses

Marriage, Law and Modernity offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. Widespread recent debate has focused on the changing nature of families, characterized by both the rise of unmarried cohabitation and the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, historical understanding of these developments remains limited. How has marriage come to be the target of national legislation? Are recent policies on same-sex marriage part of a broader transformation? And, has marriage come to be similar across the globe despite claims about national, cultural and religious difference? This collection brings together scholars from across the world in order to offer a global perspective on the history of marriage. It unites legal, political and social history, and seeks to draw out commonalities and differences by exploring connections through empire, international law and international migration.

For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 9780804773539
ISBN-13 : 080477353X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis For Better, For Worse by : Hanan Kholoussy

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule, unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they deemed incompatible with modernity. For Better, For Worse explores how marriage became the lens through which Egyptians critiqued larger socioeconomic and political concerns. Delving into the vastly different portrayals and practices of marriage in both the press and the Islamic court records, this innovative look at how Egyptians understood marital and civil rights and duties during the early twentieth century offers fresh insights into ongoing debates about nationalism, colonialism, gender, and the family.

Family Law in a Changing America

Family Law in a Changing America
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Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Total Pages : 1048
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ISBN-10 : 9798889066033
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Synopsis Family Law in a Changing America by : Douglas NeJaime

"Casebook for law students studying Family Law"--

Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa

Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9781000600216
ISBN-13 : 1000600211
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa by : Elena Moore

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender and generational power. Drawing on a range of original empirical studies, this book provides important new insights into the realities of regulating personal relationships in complex social fields in which customary practices are negotiated. This book not only adds to a fuller understanding of how customary practices are experienced in contemporary South Africa, but it also contributes to a large discussion about the experiences, impact and ongoing negotiations around changing structures of gender and generational power and rights in contemporary South Africa. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy and African Studies.

Child Custody in Islamic Law

Child Custody in Islamic Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781108470568
ISBN-13 : 1108470564
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Child Custody in Islamic Law by : Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9781501739514
ISBN-13 : 1501739514
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930 by : Judith Surkis

This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to novels), exactly how the conquest of Algeria repeatedly challenged the very ideals of the secular universalism in whose name colonization was carried out.― Joan Wallach Scott, author of Sex and Secularism During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship. In disconnecting Muslim law from property rights, French officials increasingly attached it to the bodies, beliefs, and personhood. Surkis argues that powerful affective attachments to the intimate life of the family and fantasies about Algerian women and the sexual prerogatives of Muslim men, supposedly codified in the practices of polygamy and child marriage, shaped French theories and regulatory practices of Muslim law in fundamental and lasting ways. Women's legal status in particular came to represent the dense relationship between sex and sovereignty in the colony. This book also highlights the ways in which Algerians interacted with and responded to colonial law. Ultimately, this sweeping legal genealogy of French Algeria elucidates how "the Muslim question" in France became—and remains—a question of sex.

Companion to Sexuality Studies

Companion to Sexuality Studies
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 535
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ISBN-10 : 9781119315056
ISBN-13 : 1119315050
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Companion to Sexuality Studies by : Nancy A. Naples

An inclusive and accessible resource on the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality Companion to Sexuality Studies explores the significant theories, concepts, themes, events, and debates of the interdisciplinary study of sexuality in a broad range of cultural, social, and political contexts. Bringing together essays by an international team of experts from diverse academic backgrounds, this comprehensive volume provides original insights and fresh perspectives on the history and institutional regulatory processes that socially construct sex and sexuality and examines the movements for social justice that advance sexual citizenship and reproductive rights. Detailed yet accessible chapters explore the intersection of sexuality studies and fields such as science, health, psychology, economics, environmental studies, and social movements over different periods of time and in different social and national contexts. Divided into five parts, the Companion first discusses the theoretical and methodological diversity of sexuality studies.Subsequent chapters address the fields of health, science and psychology, religion, education and the economy. They also include attention to sexuality as constructed in popular culture, as well as global activism, sexual citizenship, policy, and law. An essential overview and an important addition to scholarship in the field, this book: Draws on international, postcolonial, intersectional, and interdisciplinary insights from scholars working on sexuality studies around the world Provides a comprehensive overview of the field of sexuality studies Offers a diverse range of topics, themes, and perspectives from leading authorities Focuses on the study of sexuality from the late nineteenth century to the present Includes an overview of the history and academic institutionalization of sexuality studies The Companion to Sexuality Studies is an indispensable resource for scholars, researchers, instructors, and students in gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, interdisciplinary programs in cultural studies, international studies, and human rights, as well as disciplines such as anthropology, psychology, history, education, human geography, political science, and sociology.

The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism

The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9780429999918
ISBN-13 : 0429999917
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism by : Chelsea Schields

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism combines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising more than 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: Directions in the study of sexuality and colonialism Constructing race, controlling reproduction Sexuality in law Subjects, souls, and selfhood Pleasure and violence. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.

The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century

The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 167
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ISBN-10 : 9789004237759
ISBN-13 : 9004237755
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century by : Alexei Lalo

This anthology of Russian erotic writings of 1900 to 1940 consists of texts previously unavailable in English. They all reflect the fascinating, albeit laborious, nature of the "birth of the body" in the Russian literature and culture of the period.

Changing Relations of Welfare

Changing Relations of Welfare
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781317168522
ISBN-13 : 1317168526
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Changing Relations of Welfare by : Åsa Lundqvist

Changing Relations of Welfare is concerned with the complexities of family relations and practices in the recent past and how these have been imagined, addressed or elided in present policy making. It uses rich and varied sources to offer an innovative approach to the analysis of meanings afforded to the family in different policy, legal and welfare contexts in Sweden, Denmark and Britain. This book considers how debates about responsibility, obligation and rights have been gendered in social policy and welfare practice, whilst also focusing upon the intersections of family, gender, race and ethnicity and the different ways in which legislation and policy in northern Europe have been used to regulate not only immigration but also the lives of migrant families. Presenting a historically informed, comparative analysis of the shifting dynamics in the relationship between family and the state, this volume offers new pathways for exploring questions of change and continuity.