This collection of original essays examines the relationship between Islam, the nature of state projects, and the position of women in the modern nation states of the Middle East and South Asia. Arguing that Islam is not uniform across Muslim societies and that women’s roles in these societies cannot be understood simply by looking at texts and laws. The contributors focus, instead, on the effects of the political projects of states on the lives of women.
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State policies and women in the Middle east,
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The book insists that women in the Middle Eat must be studie through the differing plitical projects on nation-sate, with their distinct histories, relatioship to colonialism and the West, class politics, ideological uses of an Islamic idiom, and struggles over the roleof Islamic law in state legal appartues. Linking attemptsat family reform and women's rights to the efforts of the modern state to break up the autonomy of local kin roups and thus enhancetheir own power, to mobilize labor forces or political constituencies to meet national needs, or most recently to meet the requirments of international develoment agencies.
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