Women & Islamic Cultures Family, Law and Politics

called for non-violent establishment of a caliphate including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Both men and women, inspired by ide ...

The pattern of women’s engagement in civil soci- ety, politics, and governance has changed over the years. During the first half ...

bangladesh Compared to Pakistan, women in Bangladesh have participated even more in social and political movements; they partici ...

india In contrast to Pakistan and Bangladesh the Mus- lims in India had the disadvantage of being a minority community. Muslim w ...

necessary condition of a democratic polity. Com- munal norms, which have disregarded individual rights, have long been causes of ...

rights, women, mostly mothers whose sons “disap- peared” in police custody, also expanded the para- meters of democratic partici ...

N. Sirman, Feminism in Turkey. A short history, in New Perspectives on Turkey3 (1989), 1–34. Ç. Tekeli, Emergence of the feminis ...

British Colonial Domains of South Asia British colonial rule was imposed on most re- gions of South Asia (with the notable excep ...

cate a changed role for women to be achieved through specific moral and practical education. This reformist program represented ...

Muslim women would play an active role by inau- gurating the Anjuman-i-Khawatin-i-Islam (All-India Muslim Ladies Conference) in ...

Conrad’s words in Heart of Darkness(1902) clearly reveal how in colonial narratives the repre- sentations of colonized peoples a ...

serving the influence of custom” (Furnivall 1956, 3). Consequently, while colonial policies appear to be homogeneous, colonial p ...

motives were not only adduced to justify the colo- nial/imperial enterprise, but informed the drawing of policies and practices ...

ter of the programs of empire-building as a means to regiment male morality as well as to provide an example to native women of ...

J. Conrad, Heart of darkness, London 1995. C. D. Cowan and O. W. Wolters, Nineteenth century Malaya. Origins of British politica ...

educational policy where the approach was less gendered and less restrictive. It is best described by the three public schools t ...

modernist-nationalist discourse espoused by the al- Jarìdagroup (which included Amìn and Zaghlùl), especially its blame of Egypt ...

responsible for the backwardness of the nation. This discourse continues to shape postcolonial so- ciety. The results of its mod ...

added to perceptions of their backwardness or eroticism. If the French could access their private lives and erode their status a ...

social roles as benchmarks of civilization, British imperial agents used women to legitimate their imperial oppression of indige ...