Women of the Jordan: Islam, Labor and the Law (Gender, Culture & Politics in the Middle East) (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

by Amira El - Azhary Sonbol (Author)

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  2002

  $6.32

  Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work.