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Elizabeth Cooper. The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women
The Harim and the Purdah: Studies of Oriental Women
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. EGYPTIAN WOMEN OF THE PAST
The Mohammedan Woman
CHAPTER II. THE MODERN EGYPTIAN WOMAN
CHAPTER III. MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, POLYGAMY
Social Life of Egyptian Women
CHAPTER IV. THE WOMAN OF THE DESERT
CHAPTER V. INDIAN SOCIAL LIFE
CHAPTER VI. INDIAN HOME LIFE
CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE—THE GOAL OF WOMAN
CHAPTER VIII. INDIAN MOTHERHOOD
CHAPTER IX. WOMAN’S SORROW
CHAPTER X. HYDERABAD AND THE MOHAMMEDAN WOMAN
CHAPTER XI. MOHAMMEDANISM WITHIN THE ZENANA
CHAPTER XII. BURMAH
CHAPTER XIII. BURMESE RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION
CHAPTER XIV. THE LADY OF CHINA
CHAPTER XV. THE RED CHAIR OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XVI. WHEN CHINESE WOMEN DIE
CHAPTER XVII. CHANGING CHINA
CHAPTER XVIII. JAPANESE WOMEN AT HOME
CONCLUSION
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Elizabeth Cooper
Published by Good Press, 2021
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And marry not them whom your fathers have married; for this is a shame and hateful, and an evil way—though what is past may be allowed. Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters, and your sisters, and your aunts, both on your father’s and your mother’s side, and your foster-mothers and your foster-sisters, and the mothers of your wives, and your stepdaughters who are your wards, born of your wives, and the wives of your sons, and ye may not have two sisters.
He is severely criticized that he authorized polygamy, but when one remembers the wild, lawless people whom he governed, it seems that he showed extreme moderation in limiting the number of wives to four. He added that a man might possess the slaves within the household, and his followers say he was compelled to put in this postscript in order to quiet the unrest that was caused by the new domestic regulation which was so contrary to all ideas then controlling his immediate world.
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