Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

widow remarriage, age of consent, and child mar- riage were the glaring injustices to be rectified. Muslim reformers were in a m ...

Women in postcolonial states of South Asia In the independent states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh women have struggled for ...

H. Papanek and G. Minault (eds.), Separate worlds. Studies of purdah in South Asia, Delhi 1982. B. Ray, Early feminists of colon ...

group headed the opposition to the 1974 Family Code. Yewwu Yewwi leaders did not hesitate to conduct public forums, to write art ...

reforms that aimed at reinvigorating the declining Ottoman Empire. Women’s issues emerged as the foremost battlefield for debate ...

The new feminist wave passed on to the 1990s with increased internal diversity, greater emphasis on institutionalization and iss ...

Islamophobia and reinforced stereotypes of Islam and Muslim women in the United States, but simul- taneously undermined the comp ...

how gender, capitalism, and patriarchy implicate their lived realities at various levels, and to carve their own niche in femini ...

The Caucasus and Central Asia Introduction We define Islamist movements very broadly, referring to political movements that eith ...

practice and maintain rituals and customs that reflected both their Islamic and ethnic heritages, without state intrusion (Akine ...

Indonesia Indonesian women activists have been involved in women’s issues since the beginning of the twen- tieth century. Dewi S ...

seems logical, given that at the time schools re- mained closed to women. Only a small number of women from the privileged group ...

Engineer, and Amina Wadud Muhsin had stimu- lated Indonesian Muslims to think more deeply about women’s issues, leading to new u ...

women to that of mother and wife. Some endorse women’s active presence in the public sphere but are opposed to egalitarian gende ...

Faced with these intellectual endeavors and women’s social struggle for equal rights, a new per- spective has emerged among refo ...

institutions which perform important social serv- ices (health care, shelter provision, education, and the like) and to particip ...

Muslim societies. Whereas secular women activists see the United Nations conventions and civil laws as the means to an enhanced ...

the abuse of the religious terrain as a result of local democratic deficits, global economic trends, and the subsequent utilizat ...

prayer, fasting, and veiling of women. It does not necessarily ask urban women to return to their homes but endeavors to separat ...

maintains a chronicle of violence against Pakistani women, is secular and is not used by her as a vehi- cle for her feminist lib ...