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States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
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States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco (2001) (edit title/settings)

by M. Charrad (Author) (edit contributors)

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At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger... read more

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Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco share a common denominator with many postcolonial nation-states in that they are "old societies" at the same time that they are "new states," to use Clifford Geertz's classic formulation.

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  1. M. Charrad (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
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Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0520073231
Page Count: 388

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