gender Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/gender/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:43:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png gender Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/gender/ 32 32 Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/ https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:12:06 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48377 While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/strengthening-womens-financial-rights-after-marriage-matrimonial-property-under-muslim-family-law-in-pakistan/feed/ 0 Invisible Flight: Privileged Mobility and the Hidden Geography of Displacement https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/ https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:15:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=48109 This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration regimes.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/invisible-flight-privileged-mobility-and-the-hidden-geography-of-displacement/feed/ 0 Anti-heroines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/ https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/#respond Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46844 Images of female fighters in liberation movements from the global south have a wide appeal as symbols of radical social emancipation and iconic revolutionary heroines.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/anti-heroines-and-omans-revolutionary-afterlives/feed/ 0 She braids, I listen https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/ https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=45219 I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/she-braids-i-listen/feed/ 0 Between Borders and Ballots https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/ https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/#comments Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:51:44 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43255 “I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/between-borders-and-ballots/feed/ 4 Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:05:11 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41791 I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-alice-wilsons-response/feed/ 0 Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:04:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41784 In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nathalie-peutzs-comments/feed/ 0 Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/ https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/#respond Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:02:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41789 “The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/afterlives-of-revolution-nikkie-wieginks-comments/feed/ 0 Letter from Gaza with a response from New York https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/ https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/#respond Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:42:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41279 The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/letter-from-gaza-with-a-response-from-new-york/feed/ 0 The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco https://allegralaboratory.net/the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-outside-migration-as-life-in-morocco/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:40:25 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41136 Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by […]

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