A year in the court of Aintab
Leslie Peirce’s Morality Tales makes a local court, rather than an abstract catalogue of rules, the centre of a study of law and gender.
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Women and the transmission of religious knowledge
Asma Sayeed’s study gives the history of learning a longer chronology than a list of exceptional women can provide.
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Gender and legal opinions in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith Tucker’s In the House of the Law puts legal thinkers and their treatment of family relationships at the centre of an historical inquiry.
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Algerian women and the making of colonial legal categories
Sarah Ghabrial’s account of her research identifies a project on women, local courts and overlapping legal orders in Algeria between 1870 and 1930.
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Women judges: comparing institutions and working lives
The 2017 collection edited by Nadia Sonneveld and Monika Lindbekk separates public debate about women judges from evidence of judicial practice.
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Women, learning and authority in China's Hui communities
Matthew S. Erie's 2016 symposium is a starting point for asking how religious learning and legal authority are described in a particular setting.
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