The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications…
"The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family; and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implication…
Pandora's Breeches explores how women of the 17th and 18th centuries engaged in scientific activity and contributed to its rapid growth. It sets out a new and compelling version of science's past. --Publisher.
Pandora's Breeches explores how women of the 17th and 18th centuries engaged in scientific activity and contributed to its rapid growth. It sets out a new and compelling version of science's past. --Publisher.
In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through t…