Marion Holmes Katz

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from domestic labour became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States...

It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Wives' purported exemption from domestic labour became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the "oppressed Muslim woman" by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States...