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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Are Marriages Made in Heaven? -- The Sanctity of Matrimony -- Marriage and Morality -- The Family in India -- Chapter II. Subjection of Women in India -- Universal Primitive Matriarchy -- Matriarchy in India -- The Yoke -- Religion and Woman -- Woman in Medieval Europe -- Widow-Burning and Child-Marriage -- Muslims and Women -- Chapter III. Emancipation of Women -- Sex-Equality -- Match-Making -- Love's Guidance -- Divorce -- The Economic Independence of Women -- Polygyny and Polyandry -- Chapter IV. Wanted: New Values -- The Burden of the Past -- Sex in Education -- Motherhood -- Birth-Control -- Eugenics -- Conclusion -- Index.

Property and wealth are entwined in the structure of society, with ties formed through blood and marital relations, and the orderly transfer of wealth is a fundamental part of Islamic law. The supreme purpose of the Islamic system is material provision for surviving dependants and relatives. This research tries to describe the important factors at work of religion to which women have an opportunity to contribute of their aspiration for the formulation of Islamic Law. The question to be considered is how does the pre-existing, culturally rooted perception of women influence the interpretation of the Qur'anic position on women? The interpretation of the Qur'an itself is influenced by social, moral, economic and political concerns, including interpretation regarding women. For example, Verse 34 of surah 4 of the Qur'an teaches that the superiority of men over women is justified by the fact that men provide women with "nafaqa," the resources necessary to maintain human life. This verse commonly has been cited to subjugate women in the name of Islam. But Muslim women are asking the question "How should this verse be interpreted?†Is the link between the relationship of domination and consumption limited to the sexual relationship, or is it institutionalized in other spheres?

Alin Ciupală, Bătălia lor: Femeile din România în Primul Război Mondial (Their batt le: Women in Romania during World War I), Iași: Polirom, 2017, 392 pp., 48 illustrations, RON 39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-9-73466-577-8.Jelena Batinić, Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 287 pp., 11 illustrations, GBP 24.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-31611-862-7.

2 sets of data are presented to provide a framework for assessing F crime statistics in a social-structural context: they are selected crime statistics for the years 1953, 1963, & 1972, & % differences between M's & F's in white-collar employment. Cited is the article by G. W. Noblit & J. M. Burcart ("Women and Crime: 1960-1970," Social Science Quarterly, 1976, 56, 4, Mar, 658-663) which offers the comment that the increase in F arrest rate for larceny, accounts for the overall increase in women's crime rate between 1960 & 1970. While no issue is taken with this, the present study attempts to point out that Noblit & Burcart do not "emphasize enough the absence of changes in women's propensity to commit crimes of violence." Data on employment opportunities for women are discussed in an effort to explain what motivates them to commit illegal acts in order to gain financial rewards, vengeance, or power. There is little evidence in the statistics gathered of a major shift in the occupational patterns of US women. One conclusion arrived at is that for the next few years "women's participation in financial & white-collar offenses should increase & their participation in crimes of violence should decrease." 2 Tables. J. Shiffer.

This paper argues for greater integration of considerations of women and gender in the history of the 1917 Russian Revolutions. Two key issues have long been discussed by historians: the spontaneity/consciousness paradigm, and the role of class in the revolution. Neither has been adequately analyzed in relation to gender. Women's suffrage has been largely neglected despite the fact that it was a significant issue throughout the year and represented a pioneering advance won by a countrywide coalition of women and men from the working class and intelligentsia, and from almost all political parties. In this centennial year, accounts of the Revolution remain one-dimensional; women remain the other.

In this special double issue, Al-Raida presents a multi-faceted file that deals with Arab Women and Cinema. Many film makers and Arab film cri ics have contributed to it. The questions raised not only, include the image of women and women's issues in Arab cinema, but also her position in the cinema industry. Moreover, the file sheds light on wome 's partkipation in the creation of a new language that accompanied the development of the Arab fi m throughout the previous decades, taking into considera ion the specificities of each film in eV,ery Arab ountr.

Nigerian women are involved in all aspects of agriculture and rural activities. Apart from their roles as wives and mothers, they are involved in income-generating activities through food production, processing and distribution. However, ethnic considerations apart, economic stimuli appear to be a major determinant of whether particular groups of women are farmers or traders. The restricting influence of the Moslem religion on the activities of women in the north should be noted however

Although recent advances in technology have helped decentralize the capitalist power structure, capitalism & patriarchy are still pervasive, threatening the environment & the influence of women in agriculture in India. While traditional agricultural methods were largely maintained by women, new techniques & equipment used in farming have been controlled by men, leaving women feeling powerless in the community. There have been recent attempts at equalizing this power dynamic: specifically, the gram panchayats (villages politically controlled by women), initiatives granting land & labor control to women, & alternative agricultural methodologies that are more ecofriendly & offer women work responsibilities. The debate between ecofeminism & other feminisms is also briefly discussed. K. Johnson