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Hardcover Islam and Women's Income: Dowry and Law in Bangladesh Book

ISBN: 113822846X

ISBN13: 9781138228467

Islam and Women's Income: Dowry and Law in Bangladesh

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This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. 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...

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