Abstract
This work is a study of the discrepancy between the law and practice of inheritance. Since inheritance problems are confronted by both sexes, examples will involve men and women but with the main focus on the latter. Economic dependence on men results in powerlessness and passivity on the part of women. Men utilize cultural capital in their attempt to justify their unjust disinheritance of their female kin. This is used to mystify and justify to themselves their material possession of the shares of women. Whether they accept this situation or not, women are socialized into perceiving men in a certain framework reproduced through generations. Feminists have written about Muslim women in the Middle East in their attempts to reiterate the compatibility between Islam and feminism. There is a vast difference between the formal and informal practices of inheritance. The latter is influenced by social power that is used to determine the outcome of the inheritance process.
School
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date of Award
2-1-2003
Online Submission Date
1-1-2002
First Advisor
Nicholas Hopkins
Committee Member 1
Nicholas Hopkins
Committee Member 2
Rabab Abdulhadi
Committee Member 3
Helen Rizzo
Document Type
Thesis
Extent
93 leaves
Library of Congress Subject Heading 1
Inheritance and succession
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Women
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APA Citation
Labib, H.
(2003).Women and inheritance laws: the case of Egypt [Thesis, the American University in Cairo]. AUC Knowledge Fountain.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/retro_etds/1635
MLA Citation
Labib, Hedayat. Women and inheritance laws: the case of Egypt. 2003. American University in Cairo, Thesis. AUC Knowledge Fountain.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/retro_etds/1635
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Call Number
Thesis 2002/2
Location
mgfth