Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law

by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

Book Overview

In the first book to address the dilemma faced by Jordanian women in the workforce, Amira El-Azhary Sonbol delineates the constraints chat exist in a number of legal practices, namely penal codes chat permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work. Leniency in honor crimes and early marriage and motherhood for girls are other factors that extend the patriarchal power throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815629850
• ISBN13: 9780815629856
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"