The Middle East and South Asia offer fertile ground for comparative analysis of family/state relations.  Both are multi-ethnic and -religious regions in which family has become a site for codifying these differences in law written largely on the bodies of women.  Both regions have active women's movements struggling withing and against the state, using international conventions and localized cultural discourses, to advance their agendas within and against "the" family.  In both regions, one cannot but see "the" family as political.

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