Islam and Women's Income: Dowry and Law in Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9780367595548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Farah Chowdhury

Opis

This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. 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

O autorze

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.