Faith and freedom : women's human rights in the Muslim world
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Faith and freedom : women's human rights in the Muslim world
(Gender, culture and politics in the Middle East)
Syracuse University Press, 1995
1st ed
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Faith & freedom
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Papers chiefly presented at a conference titled "Religion, culture, and women's human rights in the Muslim world," held Sept. 9-10, 1994 at the American University in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by Sisterhood Is Global Institute
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780815626671
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Over half a billion women live in the Muslim world. Despite the rich complexity of their social, cultural, and ethnic differences, they are often portrayed in monolithic terms. Such stereotyping, fueled by the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism, has proved detrimental to Muslim women in their campaign for human rights. This book is the first detailed study to emphasize Muslim women's rights as human rights and to explore the existing patriarchal structures and processes that present women's human rights as contradictory to Islam. Academics and activists, most of whom live in the Muslim world, discuss the major issues facing women of the region as they enter the twenty-first century. They demonstrate how the cultural segregation of women, contradictory and conflicting legal codes, and the monopoly on the interpretation of religious texts held by a select group of male theologians, have resulted in domestic and political violence against women and the suppression of their rights. The contributors focus on ways and means of empowering Muslim women to participate in the general socialization process as well as in implementing and evaluating public policy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780815626688
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Faith and Freedom examines domestic and political violence against women resulting from cultural segregation, conflicting legal codes, and the monopoly on the interpretation of Islamic texts by a select group of male theologians. It includes recommendations on empowering Muslim women to participate in general socialization and in public policy.
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