The Fractured Scales: The Search for a Uniform Personal Code
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Edition
1st. Ed.
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ISBN
8185604517
Length
xxviii+240p.
Subjects
Women all over South Asia experience a common predicament when it comes to the religious-personal laws of their communities that ‘normalize’ their exclusion and emphasize their inferior status vis-?-vis men. All matters of marriage, divorce, custody, maintenance and inheritance fall under religious-personal laws, which combined with customary practices, perpetuate injustice and suffering. Focusing on the position of women within the state, law and religion, ...
