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Marriage and its discontents : women, Islam and the law in India /
Debates around Muslim Personal Law, the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act and the Muslim Women (protection of Rights on Divorce) Act have tended to focus on the issue of unilateral divorce, a right granted to husbands, as well as on polygamy and other discriminatory provisions in MPL. This landma...
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Table of Contents:
- 'Where will she go? What will she do?' : paternalism in the administration of Muslim personal law in contemporary India
- Muslim women and personal law
- The 'cancer of dowry' in Muslim marriages : themes in the popular rhetoric from the south Indian Muslim press
- Divorce at the wife's initiative : options and implications for women's welfare?
- Islamic feminism in India : Muslim women activists and the reform of Muslim personal law
- Change and continuity in marital alliance patterns : Muslims in south India, 1800-2012
- What can divorce stories reveal about Muslim marriages?
- Maintenance for divorced Muslim women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 : a view from the lower courts.