Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Baudouin Dupret and Maaike Voorhoeve
  • Discourses on the Law
  • 1. 'She brings up healthy children for the homeland' : morality discourses in Yemeni legal debates / Susanne Dahlgren
  • 2. Reclaiming changes within the community public sphere : Druze women's activism, personal status law and the quest for Lebanese multiple citizenship / Massimo di Ricco
  • 3. What a focus on 'Family' means in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo
  • 4. Rethinking the difference between formal and informal marriages in Egypt / Nadia Sonneveld
  • Discourses of the Law
  • 5. Waiting to win : family disputes, court reform, and the ethnography of delay / Christine Hegel-Gantarella
  • 6. Divorce practices in Muslim and Christian courts in Syria / Esther van Eijk
  • 7. Maktub : an ethnography of evidence in a Tunisian divorce court / Sarah Vincent-Grosso
  • 8. Judicial discretion in Tunisian personal status law / Maaike Voorhoeve.