Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

The Balkans This entry describes the participation of Muslim women in two different protest movements, each of which, in its own ...

fered∆aas symbols of backwardness, lack of educa- tion, and inequality. The actions led to the passing of the law banning the we ...

participation in the political and economic devel- opment of Central Asia and the Caucasus, gender roles still place women in th ...

There was no information about regional women’s protests during the Soviet period. Some examples were discovered after the disin ...

Memorial Human Rights Center (MHRC), Peaceful mass protests in Chechnya 2001. Human Rights Center “Memorial,” <http://www.mem ...

up its own women’s organizations in which women no longer struggled for their own rights, but were mobilized for the maintenance ...

of their organizations. Indonesia has two large Islamic women’s organizations. Aisyiyah was set up in 1917, as the women’s wing ...

Iran Despite historical blindness to women’s partici- pation in various social and political movements in Iran, scattered accoun ...

Zanàn1382/2003) to voice women’s urgent con- cerns and demands. All these speak, eloquently, to the presence of women as a highl ...

of the FLN; and the Union nationale des femmes marocaines, created in 1969 by the monarchy and headed by the sister of King Hass ...

who started the Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité in order to be represented at the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women i ...

well as continuing in appeals to the international community. Women in refugee camps engaged in scattered protests, participatin ...

The second intifada, which erupted in September 2000, has been sharply contrasted with the first in terms of participation by bo ...

available to women outside marriage compounded by lack of inheritance rights and if widowed, no prospect of remarriage. Their li ...

national movement. This was demonstrated at a public meeting in Punjab. When arguing that the whole audience was after all part ...

Egypt Women have played a prominent role in Egyp- tian revolutionary movements over the last century. The three major revolution ...

women primarily as mothers, calling on them to take up their duty to raise the next generation of Muslim believers. The 1952 “Re ...

instruction. They opposed a major demand of non- Islamic women’s organizations, monogamy in mar- riage. Socialist women organize ...

Sukarno, Sarinah. The duty of women in the struggle of the Indonesian Republic [in Indonesian], Jakarta 1947, 1963. N. Suwondo, ...

ist women participated in protests to promote stu- dent demands and gender equality. A small group, led by Meena (1957–87), esta ...