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Exploring gender: Islamic Perspectives on Breastfeeding

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Govt. College, Shimla-6, HP, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 2, Issue (6), Pages 30-34, June,14 (2013)

Abstract

The tradition of infant fosterage, rid’a or, “milk kinship” seemingly esoteric and intricate topic although receives extensive treatment in the Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) of the classical jurists (faqih)—hitherto lingered a virtually unknown ethnographic fact. The description “milk kinship” itself is persuasive. Major focus of the present study lies in its stress on the feminine substance of milk which does introduce a gender balance in the kinship system whose idiom is cast in patrilineal terms by which genealogical links are agnatic and agnatic ties are bound by nerve.

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