No lipstick, no beauty parlours, no nailpaints, cover from head to toe, no school, no education, no going out, no talking to males, confined to house, no tv, no magazines. Oh there were 28 or so. I rember only some of them. Public flogging/stoning and butchering if caught disobeying fatwas.The given wisdom was that girls would be the beneficiaries of what their husband would inherit from their families. In actual fact the logic was entirely with in feudal norms; system kept the larger part of the property in the family. If a girl was given equal share, she would take a greater part to her husband’s house. Giving two third share of the property to a paternal cousin makes a lot of feudal sense .



lauren vidal