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- Title
Women, Sexuality, and Social Change in the Middle East and the Maghreb.
- Authors
Ilkkaracan, Pinar
- Abstract
The article argues that the practices that violate women's sexual rights in the Middle East and in North Africa are not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality but a combination of political, economic, and social inequalities. Several issues are discussed including the contradictory construction of women's sexuality in the Qur'an and the early fiqh texts, the legal science of Islamic jurisprudence. The paper also touches on the impact of modernization on women's sexual lives and the rise of Islamic religious rights and its efforts to control women's sexuality.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; NORTH Africa; MAGHREB (North Africa); SOCIAL conditions of women; SEX discrimination against women; WOMEN'S rights; HUMAN sexuality in Islam; EQUALITY -- Religious aspects; EQUALITY; GENDERISM; ISLAM
- Publication
Social Research, 2002, Vol 69, Issue 3, p753
- ISSN
0037-783X
- Publication type
Article