Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

• Quick Search
• Advanced Search
• Article of the Month
• Translation of the Month
• Image of the Month
• Special Features

Record Number: 9609 Author(s)/Creator(s): Shatzmiller , Maya. Contributor(s): Title: Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 40, 2 (May 1997): Pages 174 - 206. Description: Article Type: Journal Article Subject (See Also): Contracts Economics Fatwas, Legal Pronouncements Islam Law Muslims Wages Wet Nurses Work Award Note: Geographic Area: Iberia;Northern Africa Century: 11- 12- 13- 14- 15 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: The evidence of the late medieval period, 11th-15th centuries, indicates that women's participation in the labour market was both considerable and diversified. This paper studies whether and how women's wage labour was affected, controlled, and regulated by laws, courts, and judges, by using an array of Maliki legal sources from Muslim Spain and North Africa. It shows the existence of a legal approach straddling a strict application of the law of the "ijara," with adjustments to family law and admission of customary law, but more importantly, an approach inspired and adapted to the framework of women's property rights and therefore beneficial to them. [Reproduced by permission of Brill]. Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: University of Western Ontario Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 1997. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 00224995

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index ©2014. Hosted by The University of Iowa Libraries.