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Crossing the Strait from Morocco to the United States: the transnational gendering of the Atlantic World before 1830

Robinson, Marsha R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1142437763

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
This world women’s history is a comparative legal study tracing two thousand years of cultural contact through 1830 between the Saharan-based, gynecentric, Berian culture foundational to the Maliki Islam of the Berbers, Southern Arabs and Iberians, and the Mesopotamian and eastern Mediterranean patriarchy foundational to West Asiatic Islam and Western Christianity. The work explores the female-friendly Berian values common to the Saharan salt marsh diaspora and Almoravid Andalusia and North Africa, correcting patriarchal Sassanid influences upon Abbasid and Almohad omissions of female politicians from their imperial histories of the Maghrib. The European patriarchal bias began during Isabel I’s Reconquista Spain when the Spanish Inquisition attempted a purge of Berian matriliny. It continued with British harem envy, hyper-virility and political jealousy as Anglo-Americans engaged Barbary states. Western Christian philosophers, Freemasons, politicians and ministers used misperceptions of the harem to limit Western women’s economic and legal rights. In the U.S., this resulted in the simultaneous rise of domesticity, left-handed marriages, and de facto American polygyny. The Berber cultural influence on the U.S. occurred in the 1833 U.S. v. Percheman decision when the Supreme Court adopted married women’s property rights from the Siete Partidas after the Florida cession.
Claire Robertson (Advisor)
Women's History; Atlantic World; Morocco - Women; United States - Women; Malik Ibn Anas; Islam - Women; Andalusia; Almoravid; Almohad; Marriage; Reconquista; Castile; Isabel I; Urraca; Alfonso VI; Alfonso X; Domesticity

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  • Robinson, M. R. (2006). Crossing the Strait from Morocco to the United States: the transnational gendering of the Atlantic World before 1830 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1142437763

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Robinson, Marsha. Crossing the Strait from Morocco to the United States: the transnational gendering of the Atlantic World before 1830. 2006. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1142437763.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Robinson, Marsha. "Crossing the Strait from Morocco to the United States: the transnational gendering of the Atlantic World before 1830." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1142437763

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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