Abstract
The first strategy can be labeled confinement: it restricts a woman to the boundaries of her home and proscribes to a large degree independent traverse in the world beyond the home. Most familiar as the practice of purdah, or seclusion, confinement is associated with, although not limited to, the Arab-Muslim countries of the Middle East. A second control strategy is protection, through which women have access to the world but are guarded and regulated while in it by one or more designated protectors. These may be male kinsmen but can also be older female relatives or family friends. The chaperon and the duenna are structural features of the protection pattern. The third strategy of social control and the one in which we are most interested in this paper is normative restriction. This form of control over the social behavior of women is embodied in
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