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• catalog abstract ""The social position of women in many of the countries ringing the Mediterranean is notoriously inferior. Across North Africa and along much of the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the 'crime of honour' - in which a woman suspected of having violated a stringent code of sexual behaviour is murdered by members of her own family - is rarely punished severely. Women spend their entire lives under the formal control and 'protection'of their fathers, brothers, husbands ... Germaine Tillion argues that this extreme form of oppression is not an aberration specific to Islam, but part of a legacy from pagan prehistory that weighs upon Christian and Muslim society alike. The rise of the Republic of Cousins was a unique Mediterranean social innovation whereby the immemorial incest taboo was relaxed and marriage between first cousins in the paternal line became common. It set the stage for the debasement of the female condition and for much else besides, from economic expansionism to high birthrates. In the hinterlands of the Mediterranean's northern shore, the Republic of Cousins ultimately gave way to the modern Republic of Citizens, though not without leaving deep traces in European and eventually American society. On the southern shore it still persists widely to this day, and many of its practices have been absorbed into Islam so profoundly that they are considered Islamic in origin by the peoples of Morocco and Algeria themselves. In support of her thesis Tillion draws upon authors as diverse as Herodotus, Saint Paul, and Ibn Khaldun, on legend and literature, ethnography and personal history, sociological investigation and fascinating anecdote." http://books.google.com/books?id=e1y3AAAAIAAJ.".
• catalog alternative "Harem et les cousins. English".
• catalog alternative "Women's oppression in Mediterranean society".
• catalog contributor b558692.
• catalog contributor b558693.
• catalog contributor b558694.
• catalog created "1983.".
• catalog date "1983".
• catalog date "1983.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1983.".
• catalog description ""The social position of women in many of the countries ringing the Mediterranean is notoriously inferior. Across North Africa and along much of the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the 'crime of honour' - in which a woman suspected of having violated a stringent code of sexual behaviour is murdered by members of her own family - is rarely punished severely. Women spend their entire lives under the formal control and 'protection'of their fathers, brothers, husbands ... Germaine Tillion argues that this extreme form of oppression is not an aberration specific to Islam, but part of a legacy from pagan prehistory that weighs upon Christian and Muslim society alike. The rise of the Republic of Cousins was a unique Mediterranean social innovation whereby the immemorial incest taboo was relaxed and marriage between first cousins in the paternal line became common. It set the stage for the debasement of the female condition and for much else besides, from economic expansionism to high birthrates. In the hinterlands of the Mediterranean's northern shore, the Republic of Cousins ultimately gave way to the modern Republic of Citizens, though not without leaving deep traces in European and eventually American society. On the southern shore it still persists widely to this day, and many of its practices have been absorbed into Islam so profoundly that they are considered Islamic in origin by the peoples of Morocco and Algeria themselves. In support of her thesis Tillion draws upon authors as diverse as Herodotus, Saint Paul, and Ibn Khaldun, on legend and literature, ethnography and personal history, sociological investigation and fascinating anecdote." http://books.google.com/books?id=e1y3AAAAIAAJ.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The noble Mediterranean peoples -- From the Republic of Brothers-In-Law to the Republic of Cousins -- Keeping it to oneself -- The Maghreb in the butter age -- 'Lo, our wedding-feast is come, o my brother' -- Nobility according to Averroes and nobility according to Ibn Khaldun -- Conflict with God -- Bourgeois snobbery -- Women and the veil.".
• catalog extent "181 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Republic of Cousins.".
• catalog identifier "0863560105 (pbk.)".
• catalog identifier "0863561004 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Republic of Cousins.".
• catalog issued "1983".
• catalog issued "1983.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "London : Al Saqi Books : distributed by Zed Press,".
• catalog relation "Republic of Cousins.".
• catalog spatial "Arab countries".
• catalog spatial "Arab countries.".
• catalog subject "305.4/862971 19".
• catalog subject "HQ1784 .T513 1983".
• catalog subject "Harems History.".
• catalog subject "Kinship Arab countries.".
• catalog subject "Women Arab countries History.".
• catalog subject "Women Arab countries Social conditions.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The noble Mediterranean peoples -- From the Republic of Brothers-In-Law to the Republic of Cousins -- Keeping it to oneself -- The Maghreb in the butter age -- 'Lo, our wedding-feast is come, o my brother' -- Nobility according to Averroes and nobility according to Ibn Khaldun -- Conflict with God -- Bourgeois snobbery -- Women and the veil.".
• catalog title "Harem et les cousins. English".
• catalog title "The republic of cousins : women's oppression in Mediterranean society / Germaine Tillion ; translated by Quintin Hoare.".
• catalog title "Women's oppression in Mediterranean society".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".