Muslim Women S Rights

Author : Tabassum Fahim Ruby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351726665

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Muslim Women's Rights by Tabassum Fahim Ruby Pdf

In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within a rights discourse owing much to liberal-secular sensibilities—notions of freedom, equality, rational thinking, individualism, and modernization. Muslim Women’s Rights explores how these liberal-secular sensibilities inform, shape, and foreclose public discussion on questions of Islam and gender. The book draws on postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational feminist studies in order to analyze public and legal debates surrounding proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada. It examines the cultural and epistemological suppositions underlying common assumptions about Islamic laws; explores how these assumptions are informed by the Western progress narrative and women’s rights debates; and asks what forms of politics these enable and foreclose. The book assesses the influence of secularism on the ontology, epistemology, and ethics afforded to Islam in the West, and begins to trace possibilities by which Islamic family law might be productively addressed on its own terms. Muslim Women’s Rights is a significant contribution to the fields of both Islam and gender and the critical study of secularism.

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674727502

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Author : Chitra Raghavan,James P. Levine
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781611682816

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Self-determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies by Chitra Raghavan,James P. Levine Pdf

An interdisciplinary anthology on the intersections of gender, Islam, and law

Author : Gisela Webb
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0815628528

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Windows of Faith by Gisela Webb Pdf

This collection of essays brings together voices from the most recent development in Muslim women's studies, namely, the burgeoning network of Muslim women working on issues of women's human rights through engaged revisionist scholarship in such areas as theology, law and jurisprudence, and women's literature. The essayists are leading Islamic women scholars in North America who affirm their religious self-identity in their acknowledgment of, and striving toward solving, serious problems women have faced in Muslim societies and communities around the world. Their approach is designated as "scholarship-activism" because it comes from the common conviction that to look at women's issues from within the Islamic perspective must unite issues of theory and practice. Any theory or analysis of women's nature, role, rights, or problems must include attention to the practical, "on-the-ground" issues involved in actualizing the Qur'anic mandate of social justice. Concomitantly, any considerations of practical solutions to problems and injustices faced by women must have a solid theological grounding in the Qur'anic world view. Contributors include representatives from the variety of constituents of Islam in America" immigrant" and "indigenous"—whose works are in the forefront of Islamic discussion and reform today: Amina Wadud, Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Maysam J. al-Faruqi, Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Asifa Quraishi, Riffat Hassan, Aminah Beverly McCloud, Mohja Kahf, Rabia Terri Harris, and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons.

Author : Daisy Khan
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781958972342

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30 Rights of Muslim Women by Daisy Khan Pdf

This authoritative “go-to” publication aims to educate women on how to express their rights within Islam. Perfect for enabling activists to integrate an egalitarian Islamic belief system into their movements. The most effective means of improving Muslim women's lives is connecting them to their deeply held beliefs that affirm human dignity and gender equality at the core of the Islamic faith. But Muslim women lack this information that enlightens and vouches for their sacred rights, and they have no accessible tools that encourage faith-based activism consistent with the Islamic faith. To protect them from being misrepresented by or outside their communities, there is a need to provide pre-packaged, easy-to-understand literacy tools to women so they can lead lives of choice, dignity, and opportunity. 30 Rights of Muslim Women aims to fill this gap.

Author : Mahnaz Afkhami
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815627599

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Muslim Women and Politics of Participation by Mahnaz Afkhami Pdf

Muslim Women and the Politics of Participation is about ways of promoting women's participation in the affairs of Muslim societies: from raising consciousness and changing codes of law to penetrating the economic markets and influencing national and international policies. Editors Mahnaz Afkhami and Erika Friedl challenge stereotypes about Muslim women and probe the difficulties and possibilities women face as they work for positive social change.

Author : Chitra Raghavan,James P. Levine
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611682809

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Self-determination and Women's Rights in Muslim Societies by Chitra Raghavan,James P. Levine Pdf

Contradicting the views commonly held by westerners, many Muslim countries in fact engage in a wide spectrum of reform, with the status of women as a central dimension. This anthology counters the myth that Islam and feminism are always or necessarily in opposition. A multidisciplinary group of scholars examine ideology, practice, and reform efforts in the areas of marriage, divorce, abortion, violence against women, inheritance, and female circumcision across the Islamic world, illuminating how religious and cultural prescriptions interact with legal norms, affecting change in sometimes surprising ways.

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015029467902

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The Rights of Women in Islam by Asghar Ali Engineer Pdf

The related issue of introduction of a common civil code, doing away with religiously discriminating laws, is considered.

Author : H. Jawad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503311

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The Rights of Women in Islam by H. Jawad Pdf

It has been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens. Yet in reality we see that women have long been subjected to both cultural and political oppression. Instances such as forced marriages are sadly common in the Muslim World, as are restrictions on education and on their role in the labour force.

Author : Alice J. Kang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944272

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Bargaining for Women's Rights by Alice J. Kang Pdf

Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion, until now, has been a systematic examination of how civil society groups mobilize to promote women’s rights and how multiple components of the state negotiate such legislation. In Bargaining for Women’s Rights, Alice J. Kang argues that reform is more likely to happen when the struggle arises from within. Focusing on how a law on gender quotas and a United Nations treaty on ending discrimination against women passed in Niger while family law reform and an African Union protocol on women’s rights did not, Kang shows how local women’s associations are uniquely positioned to translate global concepts of democracy and human rights into concrete policy proposals. And yet, drawing on numerous interviews with women’s rights activists as well as Islamists and politicians, she reveals that the former are not the only ones who care about the regulation of gender relations. Providing a solid analytic framework for understanding conflict over women’s rights policies without stereotyping Muslims, Bargaining for Women’s Rights demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on the prospects of such legislation.

Author : Vrinda Narain
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802048692

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Gender and Community by Vrinda Narain Pdf

These issues are significant not only for Muslim women in India, but also in the broader context of the accommodation of cultural diversity in pluralist democracies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sara R. Farris
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372929

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In the Name of Women's Rights by Sara R. Farris Pdf

Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on contemporary France, Italy, and the Netherlands, Farris labels this exploitation and co-optation of feminist themes by anti-Islam and xenophobic campaigns as “femonationalism.” She shows that by characterizing Muslim males as dangerous to western societies and as oppressors of women, and by emphasizing the need to rescue Muslim and migrant women, these groups use gender equality to justify their racist rhetoric and policies. This practice also serves an economic function. Farris analyzes how neoliberal civic integration policies and feminist groups funnel Muslim and non-western migrant women into the segregating domestic and caregiving industries, all the while claiming to promote their emancipation. In the Name of Women's Rights documents the links between racism, feminism, and the ways in which non-western women are instrumentalized for a variety of political and economic purposes.

Author : Lynn Welchman
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1842770950

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Women's Rights and Islamic Family Law by Lynn Welchman Pdf

Explores the present-day realties of Islamic family law, with particular emphasis on the rights of women, and focusing on law in its living social context as reflected in public opinion and personal experience.

Author : Zainah Anwar,Rashidah Abdullah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fertility, Human
ISBN : UOM:39015051699943

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Islam, Reproductive Health, and Women's Rights by Zainah Anwar,Rashidah Abdullah Pdf

Author : Susan Carland
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780522870367

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Fighting Hislam by Susan Carland Pdf

The Muslim community that is portrayed to the West is a misogynist's playground; within the Muslim community, feminism is often regarded with sneering hostility. Yet between those two views there is a group of Muslim women many do not believe exists: a diverse bunch who fight sexism from within, as committed to the fight as they are to their faith. Hemmed in by Islamophobia and sexism, they fight against sexism with their minds, words and bodies. Often, their biggest weapon is their religion. Here, Carland talks with Muslim women about how they are making a stand for their sex, while holding fast to their faith. At a time when the media trumpets scandalous revelations about life for women from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Muslim women are always spoken about and over, never with. In Fighting Hislam, that ends.