Cooke, Samantha (2019) Power, secularism and divorce : women’s rights in Egypt and Iran. National Identities .

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Abstract

This article explores how the secular nature of the Egyptian and Iranian states affected women’s divorce rights between 1920 and 1939. Contributing to existing literature by examining two states which have not been exclusively compared in this field, unique and important insights emerge regarding secularism, gender equality and family law through textual analysis of laws and memoirs. It demonstrates the impact of secular identities on divorce laws; secularism as a tool to challenge or seek power, and the significance of a state’s political environment. This article challenges assumptions that secularism had little impact on family law in the MENA region.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	National Identities
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	1460-8944
Official Date:	16 May 2019
Dates:	Date Event 16 May 2019 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	4 June 2019
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Forthcoming
Publisher Statement:	“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in National Identities on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI].”
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