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By Susanne Dahlgren

As a resident of Aden for greater than 3 years spanning the past due years of Marxist South Yemen, Dahlgren offers the reader with an intimate portrait of Yemeni women and men in the house, within the manufacturing facility, within the place of work, and on the street, demonstrating that Islamic societies has to be understood via a multiplicity of social spheres and morality orders. inside each one area, she examines the diversity of felony, political, non secular, and social laws that body gender kinfolk and social dynamics. Highlighting the range of women’s and men’s positions as a continuum instead of as designated components, Dahlgren offers a brilliant photo of this dynamic society, supplying an in-depth history to today’s political upheavals in Yemen.

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