Titlebook: Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan; Guardianship over Wo Afaf Jabiri Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Gender

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Michael Field,Martin Golubitsky political order. The chapter suggests that a transformation in women’s position demands resisting the established control mechanisms and sanctions that state uses to police women’s free choices of marriage, divorce, education, and work.

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Introduction: Gender, Law, and Politics in Jordan, which the state and its web of relations is central to understanding the politics of gender in the Middle East, rather than a cultural or religious explanation for the continued marginalization of women and their rights.

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,Women’s Alternative Forms of Femininity: Compliant, Pragmatic, and Exceptional Selves,with normative femininity, a pragmatic view, where the perception of the Self and practices are often at odds, and finally, an exceptional view where femininity is masculinized and seen as an exception from the norm.

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Conclusion: State, Gendered Power of Guardianship, and the Potential for Change, political order. The chapter suggests that a transformation in women’s position demands resisting the established control mechanisms and sanctions that state uses to police women’s free choices of marriage, divorce, education, and work.

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Afaf JabiriExplores the relevance of the state as a gender regime in the context and geopolitics of Jordan.Examines whether the masculine state succeeds in imposing a dominant form of femininity.Distinguishes wo

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elates to the gender relationships within the state institutions of law, religion, and tribal customary laws and practices. It discusses how the adopted interpretations of . (Muslim jurisprudence) in the JPSL, that is, judges’ perspectives of what guardianship over women means and entails, have cons

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55895-9trictions it imposes. The chapter challenges the general notion that education, class, and secularism are the main factors providing women with the tools to challenge normative femininity. Rather, it proposes to complicate and go beyond this classic understanding to show how women enact and perceive