Understanding Gender and Diversity in Europe

Rubya Mehdi is an emerita of the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is interested in intersections between law and sociology, like pluralism and informal justice; values and norms in relational collectivist societies; gender issues; critique of radical Islam; women movements, and individualization of Muslim legal traditions in the everyday lives of migrants. She has research experience and has worked in Pakistan, Denmark and the UK. In 2010, she started a journal renamed Navein Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, in which she published a special issue on 'Law and Run-away Women'. Among the books she has published are: Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies (co-ed., 2008, Djøf Forlag); The Islamization of Law in Pakistan (Routledge, 2015). Besides, she has contributed chapters to several books and to peer-reviewed international journals.

• Prologue/Introduction.- Relational-collectivism and Individualism: Framing of Mélange Familism.- Danish-Pakistani Single Women: A way of life.- Mélange Legalism: Law in the everyday Lives of Single Women.- Divorcees.- Widows.-  Never-Married.- Single Women in Later Lives.- Conclusions and Perspectives.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.