Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and Recommendations
  • 1. Divorce by khul in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women's Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority / Elisa Giunchi
  • 2. Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron
  • 3. Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa / Fatima Essop
  • pt. TWO Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital Disputing
  • 4. Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: Divorce on Grounds of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Indonesian Religious Courts / Ayang Utriza Yakin
  • 5. "I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me": Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce in Accra, Ghana / Fulera Issaka-Toure
  • 6. Undoing Marriage in Lebanon: Divorce within and beyond Family Courts / Jean-Michel Landry
  • pt. THREE Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household Economies
  • 7. Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce, and Gender Relations in Mali / Souleymane Diallo
  • 8. "Much-Married Woman" Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China / Rune Steenberg
  • 9. Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India / Nadia Hussain.