Gender, State and Social Power in Contemporary Indonesia
Divorce and Marriage Law
This book examines gender, state and social power in Indonesia, focusing in particular on state regulation of divorce from 1965 to 2005 and its impact on women. Indonesia experienced high divorce rates in the 1950s and 1960s, followed by a remarkable decline. Already falling divorce rates were reinforced by the 1974 Marriage Law, which for the first time regulated marriage for both Muslim and non-Muslim Indonesians and restricted access to divorce. This law defined the roles of men and women in Indonesian society, vesting household leadership with husbands and the management of the household with wives. Drawing on a wide selection of primary…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-02355-4
- EAN: 9781134023554
- Produktnummer: 14826503
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 558 KB
Über den Autor
Kate O'Shaughnessy is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Western Australia. She works for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
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