Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History in the Department of History and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Her previous publications include Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985) and In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998).

'Judith Tucker's book is a welcome addition to Cambridge University Press' series on Islamic law under the editorship of Wael B. Hallaq.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• 1. Introduction; 2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain; 3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights; 4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying; 5. Woman and man in gendered space: submitting.

Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History in the Department of History and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Her previous publications include Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985) and In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998).

'Judith Tucker's book is a welcome addition to Cambridge University Press' series on Islamic law under the editorship of Wael B. Hallaq.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• 1. Introduction; 2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain; 3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights; 4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying; 5. Woman and man in gendered space: submitting.

Judith E. Tucker is Professor of History in the Department of History and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Her previous publications include Women in Nineteenth Century Egypt (1985) and In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (1998).

'Judith Tucker's book is a welcome addition to Cambridge University Press' series on Islamic law under the editorship of Wael B. Hallaq.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• 1. Introduction; 2. Woman as wife and man as husband: making the marital bargain; 3. Woman and man as divorced: asserting rights; 4. Woman and man as legal subjects: managing and testifying; 5. Woman and man in gendered space: submitting.