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10 - Women and property revisited

from Part III - Paid labour and property

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

Annelies Moors
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands and Universiteit van Amsterdam
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The previous chapters discuss the different perspectives expressed by women in the Jabal Nablus region in regard to property and the various strategies they follow. Over time, a major trend has been the partial transition from dower to paid labour as a central mechanism for women to gain access to property. This trend ties in with the greater emphasis on the conjugal bond, rather than on kinship (the natal family) as a main source of women's socio-economic security. At the same time, this study qualifies such generalisations by pointing to the importance of focusing on the situated meanings of women and property, and to the mutiple positions women take up with regard to property. In these last pages I will bring together two lines of argument on women, power, and property. First I will discuss how changes in the construction of the gendered person may both be the effect of power relations and have consequences for women's access to property. Then I will shift the focus to the lived experiences of individual women, linking the multiplicity of their positions to the way in which these are infused with power. Finally, I will briefly return to some issues raised in the introduction.

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Women, Property and Islam
Palestinian Experiences, 1920–1990
, pp. 253 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1996

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  • Women and property revisited
  • Annelies Moors, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Women, Property and Islam
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558085.013
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  • Women and property revisited
  • Annelies Moors, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Women, Property and Islam
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558085.013
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  • Women and property revisited
  • Annelies Moors, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands and Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book: Women, Property and Islam
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558085.013
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