Wives and Work HEALTH - PARENTING/ FAMILY —Joan Finsilver

—Joan Finsilver

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Wives and Work HEALTH - PARENTING/ FAMILY —Joan FinsilverIt is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s. In Wives and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account