FAMILY, NATION BUILDING, AND CITIZENSHIP: THE LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE BAN AGAINST THE BIGAMY CLAUSE OF 1951

This article focuses on the representations and perceptions of Muslim Palestinian women as encapsulated by early Israeli legislation. The analysis is based on a close reading of the negotiations and discussions leading up to the criminalization of bigamy by the Israeli state and, in particular, thos...

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Published in:Journal of law and religion
Main Author: Aburabia, Rawia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
In: Journal of law and religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Israel, hak- Keneset / Parliamentary practice / Bigamy / Prohibition / Image of family / Patriarchalism / Muslim woman / Rechtliches Gehör / Geschichte 1951
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBL Near East and North Africa
XA Law
Further subjects:B Family law
B nation building
B Citizenship
B Bigamy
B Israel
B Muslim Women
B Palestine
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Summary:This article focuses on the representations and perceptions of Muslim Palestinian women as encapsulated by early Israeli legislation. The analysis is based on a close reading of the negotiations and discussions leading up to the criminalization of bigamy by the Israeli state and, in particular, those principal discussions surrounding the legislation of the Women's Equal Rights Law of 1951. Primary materials from the Israeli State Archives are used to reconstruct the debates in the Knesset, assess the legislation's intended effects on the Muslim Palestinian family, and trace the opposition to it fielded by the Palestinian religious leadership. The legislative process is dissected to expose the implicit and explicit patriarchal and nationalized underpinnings of the image of the "ideal family" fashioned by Israeli legislators. Despite their national divide, I argue, both the Israeli Knesset and the Muslim community leadership articulated women's roles in similarly distinctive national-patriarchal hues.
ISSN:2163-3088
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2019.43