from the “domestic.” To analytically interrogate the historical, legal, and political conditions through which the boundary between the public and the private is contested by men as well as women, as Engelcke does, is to study gendered state-society relations. And it is to do so well! Reforming Family Law will be a great resource to Middle East studies scholars. It is clear that the book is the result of meticulous research, if only for the gargantuan task of synthesizing and systematizing the family legal codes of each country. This was a particularly hard task for Jordan, where there has been less research on family law. Dörthe Engelcke made use of a wide array of legal, statistical, and journalistic written sources both locally and internationally. And one of the strengths of the book comes from the semi-structured interviews with judges, clerks, and members of religious and civil government units, women’s groups, and Islamist organizations that animate and challenge state narratives about family law reform. The book will prove generative in both undergraduate and graduate seminars on the Middle East and North Africa. And it will hopefully inspire scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa that takes up the racialized formations of gender, sexuality, and kinship as integral, rather than supplemental, to the study of topics like sovereignty, border regimes, migration, bureaucracy, legal status, humanitarianism, development, neoliberalism, and capitalism.

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国家银行：黎巴嫩的金融基础。Hicham Safieddine（斯坦福，加利福尼亚：斯坦福大学出版社，2019 年）。pp。272. $30.00 纸。国际标准书号：9781503609679

来自“国内”。像恩格尔克一样，分析性地询问男性和女性争夺公共和私人之间的界限的历史、法律和政治条件，就是研究性别化的国家-社会关系。而且还做得这么好！改革家庭法将成为中东研究学者的重要资源。很明显，这本书是细致研究的结果，即使只是为了综合和系统化每个国家的家庭法典的艰巨任务。这对约旦来说是一项特别艰巨的任务，那里对家庭法的研究较少。Dörthe Engelcke 广泛使用了本地和国际的法律、统计和新闻书面资料。这本书的优势之一来自对法官的半结构化采访，文员，以及宗教和公民政府单位、妇女团体和伊斯兰组织的成员，他们激发和挑战国家关于家庭法改革的叙述。这本书将在关于中东和北非的本科生和研究生研讨会中证明是生成性的。它有望激发关于中东和北非的学术研究，将性别、性行为和亲属关系的种族化形式作为研究主权、边境制度、移民、官僚主义、法律地位等主题的整体而非补充、人道主义、发展、新自由主义和资本主义。这本书将在关于中东和北非的本科生和研究生研讨会中证明是生成性的。它有望激发关于中东和北非的学术研究，将性别、性行为和亲属关系的种族化形式作为研究主权、边境制度、移民、官僚主义、法律地位等主题的整体而非补充、人道主义、发展、新自由主义和资本主义。这本书将在关于中东和北非的本科生和研究生研讨会中证明是生成性的。它有望激发关于中东和北非的学术研究，将性别、性行为和亲属关系的种族化形式作为研究主权、边境制度、移民、官僚主义、法律地位等主题的整体而非补充、人道主义、发展、新自由主义和资本主义。