From the Liberation of Women to the Liberation of Men? A Century of Family Law Reform in Egypt
To what extent have notions of manhood and womanhood as incorporated in Egyptian Muslim family law changed over the course of almost a century of family law reforms, and why? In answering this question, I draw on the works of two Egyptian intellectuals, Qasim Amin and Azza Heikal, because they discu...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Religion & gender
Año: 2017, Volumen: 7, Número: 1, Páginas: 88-104 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Haikal, ʿAzza 1942-
/ Amīn, Qāsim 1863-1908
/ Egipto
/ Derecho familiar
/ Papel de género
/ Autoritarismo
/ Historia 1875-2017
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión AG Vida religiosa BJ Islam KBL Oriente Medio NBE Antropología NCF Ética sexual TJ Edad Moderna TK Período contemporáneo XA Derecho |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Egypt
B Qasim Amin B Gender B Authoritarianism B Azza Heikal B shari‘a-based family law reform |
| Acceso en línea: |
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| Sumario: | To what extent have notions of manhood and womanhood as incorporated in Egyptian Muslim family law changed over the course of almost a century of family law reforms, and why? In answering this question, I draw on the works of two Egyptian intellectuals, Qasim Amin and Azza Heikal, because they discussed ideas about manhood and womanhood in relation to Islamic religion and authoritarian rule. My analysis shows that there is a dire need within studies on gender in the Middle East to assess the effectiveness of family law reform on both women’s and men’s agency. After all, when an authoritarian government introduces legislation that enhances women’s legal rights with regard to the family but does not reform men’s legal rights inside that same family, it is not surprising that when political oppression ends, disenfranchised men will try to abolish the laws that expanded their wives’ freedom and curtailed theirs. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18352/rg.10197 |
