The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia

Wife battering has become one of the major problems across the world. It cuts across lines of races, religion, income and classes of people. It is also deeply embedded in all cultures, so much so that millions of women consider it as a way of life. This article seeks to examine the cultural and le...

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Main Author: Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 2009
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spelling iium-178972014-01-22T08:15:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/ The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina K Law (General) KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh Wife battering has become one of the major problems across the world. It cuts across lines of races, religion, income and classes of people. It is also deeply embedded in all cultures, so much so that millions of women consider it as a way of life. This article seeks to examine the cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia. In relation to cultural perspective, it attempts to address the issue of cultural beliefs of the major races in Malaysia, i.e. the Chinese, Indians and Malays, on this matter particularly pertaining to the extent of the husband’s authority over the wife which is claimed to be one of the contributing factors of wife battering. In relation to this, special emphasis is made on the misconception of wife battering in Islam. Finally, the article discusses the applicable laws and the available remedies and presents to what degree these laws are adequate in controlling the problem of wife battering in Malaysia. 2009-05-29 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/1/The_Cultural_and_Legal_Perspectives_on_Wife_Battering_in_Malaysia_by_Roslina_Che_Soh.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/4/the_cultural_and_legal_perspectives.pdf Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina (2009) The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia. In: 6th Asian Law Institute Conference, 29-30 May 2009, Hong Kong University. http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/6th_asli_conf/pdf/Programme_and_panels2009.pdf
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KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
description Wife battering has become one of the major problems across the world. It cuts across lines of races, religion, income and classes of people. It is also deeply embedded in all cultures, so much so that millions of women consider it as a way of life. This article seeks to examine the cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia. In relation to cultural perspective, it attempts to address the issue of cultural beliefs of the major races in Malaysia, i.e. the Chinese, Indians and Malays, on this matter particularly pertaining to the extent of the husband’s authority over the wife which is claimed to be one of the contributing factors of wife battering. In relation to this, special emphasis is made on the misconception of wife battering in Islam. Finally, the article discusses the applicable laws and the available remedies and presents to what degree these laws are adequate in controlling the problem of wife battering in Malaysia.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
author_facet Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
author_sort Che Soh @ Yusoff, Roslina
title The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
title_short The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
title_full The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
title_fullStr The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in Malaysia
title_sort cultural and legal perspectives on wife battering in malaysia
publishDate 2009
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/1/The_Cultural_and_Legal_Perspectives_on_Wife_Battering_in_Malaysia_by_Roslina_Che_Soh.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/17897/4/the_cultural_and_legal_perspectives.pdf
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