It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from
any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from
domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to
Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late
nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings
by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s. In Wives
and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on
wives' domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship
between Islamic law and ethics. She reconstructs a complex
discussion among Sunni legal scholars of the ninth to fourteenth
centuries CE and examines its wide-ranging implications. As early
as the ninth century, the prevalent doctrine that wives had no
legal duty to do housework stood in conflict with what most
scholars understood to be morally and religiously right. Scholars'
efforts to resolve this tension ranged widely, from drawing a clear
distinction between legal claims and ethical ideals to seeking a
synthesis of the two. Katz positions legal discussion within a
larger landscape of Islamic normative discourse, emphasizing how
legal models diverge from, but can sometimes be informed by,
philosophical ethics. Through the lens of wives' domestic labor,
this book sheds new light on notions of family, labor, and gendered
personhood as well as the interplay between legal and ethical
doctrines in Islamic thought.
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