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Feminism, Law, and Religion

Author : Marie Failinger,Elizabeth Schiltz,Susan J. Stabile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317135791

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Feminism, Law, and Religion by Marie Failinger,Elizabeth Schiltz,Susan J. Stabile Pdf

With contributions from some of the most prominent voices writing on gender, law and religion today, this book illuminates some of the conflicts at the intersection of feminism, theology and law. It examines a range of themes from the viewpoint of identifiable traditions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, from a theoretical and practical perspective. Among the themes discussed are the cross-over between religious and secular values and assumptions in the search for a just jurisprudence for women, the application of theological insights from religious traditions to legal issues at the core of feminist work, feminist legal readings of scriptural texts on women's rights and the place that religious law has assigned to women in ecclesiastic life. Feminists of faith face challenges from many sides: patriarchal remnants in their own tradition, dismissal of their faith commitments by secular feminists and balancing the conflicting loyalties of their lives. The book will be essential reading for legal and religious academics and students working in the area of gender and law or law and religion.

Women's Rights and Religious Law

Author : Fareda Banda,Lisa Fishbayn Joffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317517658

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Women's Rights and Religious Law by Fareda Banda,Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Pdf

The three Abrahamic faiths have dominated religious conversations for millennia but the relations between state and religion are in a constant state of flux. This relationship may be configured in a number of ways. Religious norms may be enforced by the state as part of a regime of personal law or, conversely, religious norms may be formally relegated to the private sphere but can be brought into the legal realm through the private acts of individuals. Enhanced recognition of religious tribunals or religious doctrines by civil courts may create a hybrid of these two models. One of the major issues in the reconciliation of changing civic ideals with religious tenets is gender equality, and this is an ongoing challenge in both domestic and international affairs. Examining this conflict within the context of a range of issues including marriage and divorce, violence against women and children, and women’s political participation, this collection brings together a discussion of the Abrahamic religions to examine the role of religion in the struggle for women’s equality around the world. The book encompasses both theory and practical examples of how law can be used to negotiate between claims for gender equality and the right to religion. It engages with international and regional human rights norms and also national considerations within countries. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in law and religion, gender studies and human rights law.

Gender, Religion, and Family Law

Author : Lisa Fishbayn Joffe,Sylvia Neil
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781611683271

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Gender, Religion, and Family Law by Lisa Fishbayn Joffe,Sylvia Neil Pdf

Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Margaret Walters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805102

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Feminism: A Very Short Introduction by Margaret Walters Pdf

This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.

Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere

Author : Niamh Reilly,Stacey Scriver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135014247

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Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere by Niamh Reilly,Stacey Scriver Pdf

The re-emergence of religion as a significant cultural, social and political, force is not gender neutral. Tensions between claims for women’s equality and the rights of sexual minorities on one side and the claims of religions on the other side are well-documented across all major religions and regions. It is also well recognized in feminist scholarship that gender identities and ethno-religious identities work together in complex ways that are often exploited by dominant groups. Hence, a more comprehensive understanding of the changing role and influence of religion in the public sphere more widely requires complex, multidisciplinary and comparative gender analyses. Most recent discussion on these matters, however, especially in Europe, has focused primarily on the perceived subordinate status of Muslim women. These debates are a reminder of the deep interrelation of questions of gender, identity, human rights and religious freedom more generally. The relatively narrow (albeit important) purview of such discussions so far, however, underscores the need to extend the horizon of enquiry vis-à-vis religion, gender and the public sphere beyond the binary of ‘Islam versus the West’. Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere moves gender from the periphery to the centre of contemporary debates about the role of religion in public and political life. It offers a timely, multidisciplinary collection of gender-focused essays that address an array of challenges arising from the changing role and influence of religious organisations, identities, actors and values in the public sphere in contemporary multicultural and democratic societies.

Women, Gender, Religion

Author : E. Castelli,R. Rodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137048301

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Women, Gender, Religion by E. Castelli,R. Rodman Pdf

This up-to-date and forward-looking collection of essays on gender and religion fills a crucial gap. Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, this volume highlights the contributions that different disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. Designed for the classroom, the Reader simultaneously assesses the state of the field and raises questions for further inquiry and investigation.

Feminism and Islam

Author : Mai Yamani,Andrew Allen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814796818

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Feminism and Islam by Mai Yamani,Andrew Allen Pdf

"In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the shari'a (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Arab societies in general, Feminism and Islam brings together renowned women researchers and academics -- historians, political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, social anthropologists, and literary critics -- to examine the examine the phenomenon of feminism within the Islamic cultural framework. Introducing a feminism which is "Islamic" in its form and context, the essays focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women and entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political strategies of feminists in the Islamic world." -- Back cover

Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

Author : C. Howland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230107380

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Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women by C. Howland Pdf

Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.

Feminist Legal Theory

Author : Frances E. Olsen
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Feminist jurisprudence
ISBN : 1855217368

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An examination of how feminism and legal theory intersect. It offers various critiques of feminism, Marxism, the state, the family and other ideological and cultural issues in conjunction with legal theory. Controversies within feminist legal theory are covered, and new directions suggested.

Citizenship, Faith, & Feminism

Author : Jan Lynn Feldman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611680119

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Citizenship, Faith, & Feminism by Jan Lynn Feldman Pdf

The first book to examine religious feminist activists in Israel, the U.S., and Kuwait

Gender and Feminist Theory in Law and Society

Author : Madhavi Sunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351157742

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Gender and Feminist Theory in Law and Society by Madhavi Sunder Pdf

This volume chronicles a quarter-century of feminist theorizations on equality and liberty. The essays demonstrate a continuing commitment to feminist method (a democratic notion that all people have a right to participate in the production of knowledge of the world, including legal knowledge) and manifest feminism's continuing critical tradition (namely, theorists' willingness to see multiple factors, including feminism itself, as obstructing enlightened constructions of the world). Taken together, the essays suggest that liberty to make the world is not just a means to an end - equality - but is a substantive end in itself.

Feminist Ethics and Natural Law

Author : Cristina L. H. Traina
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 158901846X

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Feminist Ethics and Natural Law by Cristina L. H. Traina Pdf

Heated debates over such issues as abortion, contraception, ordination, and Church hierarchy suggest that feminist and natural law ethics are diametrically opposed. Cristina L.H. Traina now reexamines both Roman Catholic natural law tradition and Anglo-American feminist ethics and reconciles the two positions by showing how some of their aims and assumptions complement one another. After carefully scrutinizing Aquinas’s moral theology, she analyzes trends in both contemporary feminist ethics, theological as well as secular, and twentieth-century Roman Catholic moral theology. Although feminist ethics reject many of the methods and conclusions of the scholastic and revisionist natural law schools, Traina shows that a truly Thomistic natural law ethic nonetheless provides a much-needed holistic foundation for contemporary feminist ethics. On the other hand, she offers new perspectives on the writings of Josef Fuchs, Richard McCormick, and Gustavo Gutierrez, arguing that their failure to catch the full spirit of Thomas’s moral vision is due to inadequate attention to feminist critical methods. This highly original book proposes an innovative union of two supposedly antagonistic schools of thought, a new feminist natural law that would yield more comprehensive moral analysis than either existing tradition alone. This is a provocative book not only for students of moral theology but also for feminists who may object to the very notion of natural law ethics, suggesting how each might find insight in an unlikely place.

Religion, Gender and Citizenship

Author : Line Nyhagen,B. Halsaa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137405340

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Religion, Gender and Citizenship by Line Nyhagen,B. Halsaa Pdf

How do religious women talk about and practise citizenship? How is religion linked to gender and nationality? What are their views on gender equality, women's movements and feminism? Via interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Norway, Spain and the UK, this book explores intersections between religion, citizenship, gender and feminism.

Between Feminism and Islam

Author : Zakia Salime
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816651337

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Between Feminism and Islam by Zakia Salime Pdf

How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other’s agendas in Morocco

Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East

Author : Victor H. Matthews,Bernard M. Levinson,Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567080986

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Gender and Law in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East by Victor H. Matthews,Bernard M. Levinson,Tikva Frymer-Kensky Pdf

This striking new contribution to gender studies demonstrates the essential role of Israelite and Near East law in the historical analysis of gender. The theme of these studies of Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, and Israelite law is this: What is the significance of gender in the formulation of ancient law and custom? Feminist scholarship is enriched by these studies in family history and the status of women in antiquity. At the same time, conventional legal history is repositioned, as new and classical texts are interpreted from the vantage point of feminist theory and social history. Papers from SBL Biblical Law Section form the core of this collection.