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Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan [electronic resource] : Guardianship over Women / by Afaf Jabiri.

Jabiri, Afaf, author.
2016
JQ1758-1852
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Title
Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan [electronic resource] : Guardianship over Women / by Afaf Jabiri.
Author
Jabiri, Afaf, author.
ISBN
9783319326436
3319326430
9783319326429 (hbk.)
3319326422
9783319326436
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32643-6.
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (IX, 210 pages) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-32643-6. doi
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JQ1758-1852
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.956
Summary
This book analyzes how the state constructs and reproduces gender identities in the context and geopolitics of Jordan. Guardianship over women is examined as not only the basis of women's legal and social subordination, but also a key factor in the construction and reproduction of a gender hierarchy system. Afaf Jabiri probes how a masculine state gives power and legitimacy through guardianship to institutions--including family, religion, and tribe--in managing, producing, and constructing gender identity. Does the masculine institution succeed in imposing a dominant form of femininity? Or are there ways by which women escape and resist the social and legal construction of femininity? Based on over 60 case studies of contemporary women in Jordan, the book additionally examines how the resultant strategies and tactics developed by women in Jordan are influenced by and affect their status within the guardianship system.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, Law, and Politics in Jordan
Chapter 2: Constructing Normative Femininity: The Engagement of Law and Religious Interpretations
Chapter 3: Women's Alternative Forms of Femininity: Compliant, Pragmatic, and Exceptional Selves
Chapter 4: Women's Everyday Tactics of Defiance and Compliance
Chapter 5: Rebelling Against the System of Guardianship: Women "in Need of Correction and Rehabilitation"
Chapter 6: Conclusion: State, Gendered Power of Guardianship, and the Potential for Change.

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