Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity

by Marion Holmes Katz

Book Overview

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s.

In Wives and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231206895
• ISBN13: 9780231206891
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"