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Shopping with Allah : Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world
Thimm, Viola - 2023
spiritual cultivation. Focusing on the intersection of gender and Islam, Viola Thimm shows how this intersection develops and … fieldwork in Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Thimm sheds light on how Islam and gender frame Malaysian religious … Allah will primarily be of interest to readers within the anthropology of gender, the anthropology of Islam and the …
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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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Religious Freedoms Versus Gender Equality : Faith-Based Organizations, Muslim Minorities, and Islamic Headscarves in the New Europe
Ghodsee, Kristen - 2009
The intersections of gender and civil society in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have been examined primarily through the lens of Western Aid to support feminist nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). What has received less scholarly attention is the growing number of NGOs...
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Position of Women Under Muslim Law
Thanvi, Ameyavikrama - 2016
The position of women under the Muslim Law has for long been pitied upon. There have been beliefs about women being treated no better than animals and properties of men.However, the position of law is quite different. Muslim law, in fact, is one of the more progressive ones to have written it...
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Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves
Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2016
Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011570701
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Making of a Muslim woman : different pathways to religious practices
Vasudev, Romica; Inbanathan, Anand - 2023
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Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh
Ambrus, Attila; Field, Erica Marie; Torero, Máximo - 2008
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Natural shocks and marriage markets : evolution of mehr and dowry in muslim marriages
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Mallick, Debdulal; Chowdhury, … - 2017
We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event of divorce, and dowry, a transfer from bride families to grooms at the time of marriage, have evolved through natural shocks. We develop a model of marriage market in which dowry acts as a groom price, whereas mehr...
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Muslim and Hindu Womens' Inheritance Right and Impediments in Bangladesh : A Summary
Chowdhury, Sahnawaj Mahmood - 2022
Distribute the rest of estate and property to the relatives of the deceased according to Shariah Law, is commonly practiced. In Hindu law, Property received from a decedent, either by will or through state laws of intestate succession, where the decedent has failed to execute a valid will....
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The global gender gap report : insight report
Weltwirtschaftsforum - Geneva : World Economic Forum - 2006 -
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