2001, ISBN: 9780814796818

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Vancouver, British Columbia: Univ of British Columbia Press, 2001. Book. Very Good+. Pictorial Boards. Canadian First. Minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condit… Mehr…

Vancouver, British Columbia: Univ of British Columbia Press, 2001. Book. Very Good+. Pictorial Boards. Canadian First. Minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; pencil underlining and marginalia have been erased.., Univ of British Columbia Press, 2001, 3, Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Manitoba Law Foundation & The Law Society of Manitoba, 1987. First edition. Stapled Wraps. pp. 53. 8vo. Illustrated stapled card covers. Small spot to rear cover, some highlighting to pages 35 to 37 otherwise remains clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; very good. Includes a comprehensive listing of resources and organizations dedicated to women including sections on: Employment, Employment Orientation for Women, Money Matters, Abortion, Rape/Sexual Assault, Divorce/Martial Breakdown, Housing, Pensions/Services for the Elderly, Legal Services, Child/Family Concerns, Help for Battered Women, Victims of Crime etc., The Manitoba Law Foundation & The Law Society of Manitoba, 1987, 0, New York: Free Press, 1985. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A feminist-oriented study of divorce and its consequences on the financial well-being of women and children within their custory, putting forward various facts, statistics, and arguments that men tend to gain financially from divorce while women lose, especially highlighting the issue of future earnings and the view that divorced women should be entitled to a large portion of same from their exes. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains tables, legal statistics appendices, notes, indexed, 504pp., one paragraph on one page shows some highlighting, a few pages show tiny pencil tick marks. A nice copy overall, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Free Press, 1985, 4.5, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xv, 382 pages. Square spine, single spine crease which should be treated with care; binding tight. Curling and light edgewear to covers; pale grey letters traced in ink; former owner's name inside cover. Sporadic yellow highlighting throughout, mostly in a rather pale pen, not particularly obtrusive or abundant. I would consider this a very readable copy. "Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Dayton argues that women's relation to the courtroom scene in early New England shifted from one of integration in the mid-17th century to one of marginality by the eve of the Revolution.". First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 6 x 9.25 in. (15cm x 23.5cm)., University of North Carolina Press, 1995, 2.5, New York U. S. A.: NYU Press. New 1996. Softcover. Marfree, acidfree Fine 1stEd; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 1.35 x 9.25 x 6.13 Inches; 385 pages; In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redifinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom.Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political srategies of feminists inb the Islam world.More Reviews and RecommendationsBiographyThe first Saudi Arabian woman to ean a docorate from Oxford, Mai Yamani is Research associate at the Center of Ixlamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of oriental and African Studies of the University of London. ., NYU Press, 1996, 6<

ISBN: 9780814796818

Paperback, [PU: New York University Press], In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This … Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: New York University Press], In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political strategies of feminists in the Islam world., Feminism & Feminist Theory<

1996, ISBN: 0814796818

[EAN: 9780814796818], Neubuch, [PU: New York Univ Pr], 392 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock., Books