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Farah Deeba Chowdhury - Islam and Women's Income, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Islam and Women's Income

Dowry and Law in Bangladesh

Av Farah Deeba Chowdhury

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This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women. Taking a socio-legal approach, it analyses the changing nature of the dowry practice and its relation to women’s increasing paid labour force activity. Despite anti-dowry legislation, it is argued here that the dowry system continues in the form of the appropriation of wives’ income. The work calls for legal recognition of this action and the amendment of the Dowry Prohibition Act 1980 as a result of the changing social realities that are taking place in the lives of Bangladeshi women. An Islamic approach is applied to equality between men and women in addressing and analysing these issues. The book includes international comparisons on gender equality and discusses the role of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Descrimination Against Women (CEDAW), as well as the dowry system in South Asia.The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of law and religion, gender studies and international development.
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Farah Deeba Chowdhury is a Scholar in Residence at the Global Labour Research Centre, York University, Canada. She has served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and has also held an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. She specializes in the areas of Islam, gender and law; gender and work; gender and politics; and gender and development. She has published widely on these topics.

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This book offers an original Islamic interpretation of formal and substantive equality as requiring Bangladeshi husbands to stop appropriating wives’ earnings and to pay them maintenance and dower. Drawing on a deep understanding of national values, the author recommends Bangladesh criminalize income appropriation under existing anti-dowry legislation which does not apply to dower and could significantly improve the lives of working wives. Beverley Baines, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University.Islam and Women`s Income (highlight title) provides a devastating critique of Bangladesh`s dowry system, which both reinforces patriarchal power and reduces married women`s control over their earned income. Indeed, Chowdhury develops a powerful argument for the importance of critically assessing the way cultural practices can interact with economic, political and legal forces to reinforce and legitimate gender inequality. This is a shocking and depressing story, but an essential read for scholars, development experts, policy makers and citizens concerned with developing a more gender equal world. Jane Parpart, Research Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance.

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