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Female Legal Subjects And Excused Violence: Male Collective Welfare Through State-Sanctioned Discipline In The Levantine French Mandate And Metropolis

Diwan, Naazneen S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222186748

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
The intention of this paper is to demonstrate that the regulation of social subjects within the family was the impetus to regulation of legal subjects in both mandatory Syria and Lebanon (The Levant) and the French metropolis. First, this paper explores female subject construction under the post-WWI French mandate of the Levant. It then discusses how Enlightenment-thinking influenced the Ottoman Empire in its appropriation of the French Penal Code followed by the contemporary legal theory dividing Western and Islamic contexts. It then examines criminal court cases from the Levant and France that deal with domestic violence or murder as reactions to adultery with comparisons of how the French state in each context regulated citizens' morality. The paper concludes its genealogy of patriarchy in the law with Orientalist understandings of "honor killings" that neglect factoring in overlapping histories and current feminist approaches to confronting "Eastern" forms of violence.
Joseph Zeidan (Advisor)
Snjezana Buzov (Committee Member)
98 p.
Gender; History; International Law; International Relations; Law; Middle Eastern History; Social Structure; Womens Studies
violence; postcolonialism; honor killings; Syria; Lebanon; French colonialism; criminal law

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  • Diwan, N. S. (2008). Female Legal Subjects And Excused Violence: Male Collective Welfare Through State-Sanctioned Discipline In The Levantine French Mandate And Metropolis [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222186748

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Diwan, Naazneen. Female Legal Subjects And Excused Violence: Male Collective Welfare Through State-Sanctioned Discipline In The Levantine French Mandate And Metropolis. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222186748.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Diwan, Naazneen. "Female Legal Subjects And Excused Violence: Male Collective Welfare Through State-Sanctioned Discipline In The Levantine French Mandate And Metropolis." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222186748

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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