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Islam and Women's Income - Dowry and Law in Bangladesh (Paperback)
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Islam and Women's Income - Dowry and Law in Bangladesh (Paperback)
Series: ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
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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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