Women, property, and Islam : Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990 / Annelies Moors.

Moors, Annelies
Call Number
346.5695301/3 345.69530613
Author
Moors, Annelies, author.
Title
Women, property, and Islam : Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990 / Annelies Moors.
Women, Property & Islam
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge Middle East studies ; 3
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
1. Introduction: women and property -- pt. I. Politics, economy and kinship. 2. The lives of four women: introducing property and politics. 3. Women and inheritance -- pt. II. The dower. 4. The dower: marriage, gender and social stratification. 5. Marriage: the prompt dower. 6. Repudiation and widowhood: the deferred dower -- pt. III. Paid labour and property. 7. Poverty, wage labour and property. 8. Gender and garment production. 9. Education, professional work and property. 10. Women and property revisited.
Summary
According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, to receive a dower at marriage, and are in full control of their income. Through an anthropological study of Palestinian women on the West Bank, Annelies Moors demonstrates that this is not always the case in practice. In fact, their options vary greatly depending on whether they gain access to property through inheritance, through the dower or through paid labour. The narratives of women from different stratas of society indicate under what circumstances they claim property rights, and when they are prevented from doing so in order to gain other advantages. While essentially an ethnographic study, the author's use of court records demonstrates how historical changes have affected women's claims to property, focusing on the relation between local traditions, international politics and transnational labour migration.
Subject
Women, Palestinian Arab West Bank Nablus Region Social conditions Case studies.
Women, Palestinian Arab West Bank Nablus Region Economic conditions Case studies.
Women's rights West Bank Nablus Region Case studies.
Right of property (Islamic law)
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
Multimedia
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Summary
According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, to receive a dower at marriage, and are in full control of their income. Through an anthropological study of Palestinian women on the West Bank, Annelies Moors demonstrates that this is not always the case in practice. In fact, their options vary greatly depending on whether they gain access to property through inheritance, through the dower or through paid labour. The narratives of women from different stratas of society indicate under what circumstances they claim property rights, and when they are prevented from doing so in order to gain other advantages. While essentially an ethnographic study, the author's use of court records demonstrates how historical changes have affected women's claims to property, focusing on the relation between local traditions, international politics and transnational labour migration.
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents
1. Introduction: women and property -- pt. I. Politics, economy and kinship. 2. The lives of four women: introducing property and politics. 3. Women and inheritance -- pt. II. The dower. 4. The dower: marriage, gender and social stratification. 5. Marriage: the prompt dower. 6. Repudiation and widowhood: the deferred dower -- pt. III. Paid labour and property. 7. Poverty, wage labour and property. 8. Gender and garment production. 9. Education, professional work and property. 10. Women and property revisited.
Subject
Women, Palestinian Arab West Bank Nablus Region Social conditions Case studies.
Women, Palestinian Arab West Bank Nablus Region Economic conditions Case studies.
Women's rights West Bank Nablus Region Case studies.
Right of property (Islamic law)
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
Multimedia