Enfranchised Minors: Women as People in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Uprisings

The civic status of female citizens in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is conceptualized as “enfranchised minorhood” which reflects the confined position of adult women as legal minors under the trusteeship of male kin in family law, criminal law, and nationality law. During and in th...

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Main Author: Rania Maktabi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-03-01
Series:Laws
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/6/1/4