Ḥaḍāna Practices in Tunisia: Between Women’s Rights and the Best Interest of the Child, 1956–2019

Authors
Publication date 10-2020
Journal Hawwa. Journal of women of the Middle East and the Islamic world
Volume | Issue number 18 | 2-3
Pages (from-to) 194-225
Number of pages 32
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract This article examines how Tunisian judges since independence deal with childcare cases upon divorce. As a legal ethnographic study of ḥaḍāna (child custody) in contemporary Tunisia, this study aims to contribute to the existing literature on judicial practice in Muslim contexts. The article aims to reveal these judges’ understandings of child custody, of women’s and men’s roles in childcare, and of the rights and interests of children and how this understanding developed over time.
Document type Article
Note In: Special issue on Gender and Judging in Muslim Courts: Emerging Scholarship and Debates
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341377
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