Book
Women, property, and Islam: Palestinian experiences, 1920-1990
Cambridge University Press • New York • Published In 1995 • Pages: xi, 274
By: Moors, Annelies.
Abstract
This is an ethnographic study of women's property rights in the Jabal Nablus region of the West Bank. Moors looks at the varying practices surrounding inheritance, the dower, and wage labor; the three main ways women acquire property. She compares differences between rural and urban women, and women from different classes. She discusses the changes in these practices with the marginalization of agriculture and the commoditization of Palestinian society. She includes in her discussion the element of power which is not necessarily equated with property and explains why women would give up rights to property in some circumstances if instead power was gained.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1980-1989
- Coverage Date
- 1920-1989
- Coverage Place
- Jabal Nablus region, West Bank, Occupied Territories, Israel
- Notes
- Annelies Moors
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268)
- LCCN
- 94041373
- LCSH
- Palestinian Arabs