Religious fundamentalisms and the human rights of women
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Religious fundamentalisms and the human rights of women
Macmillan, c1999
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Description
Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an "all or nothing" approach; fundamentalists rely on a claim of absolute religious freedom, while feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. This book provides a forum for different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass-roots activism and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction: religious fundamentalism as a transnational and cross-cultural movement, and the legal effect on women. Part 2 Social and political sciences perspectives on the impact of religious fundamentalism on women: fundamentalism
- Christian fundamentalism
- responses of women to Islamic fundamentalism
- the personal is political. Part 3 Responses to religious fundamentalist assertions of cultural relativism: relativism, culture, religion, and identity
- cultural relativism and international law
- gender apartheid and the discourse of relativity of rights in Muslim societies
- different but free. Part 4 The international legal framework: safeguarding women's political freedoms under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the face of religious fundamentalism
- religious reservations to the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
- women's equal right to freedom of religion or belief
- religious fundamentalism and education of the girl child under international law. Part 5 Meeting the challenges in different religions and different countries: the two faces of secularism and women's rights in India
- religion, multiculturalism and feminism
- family disputes involving Muslims in contemporary Europe. Part 6 The war over women's bodies: the effect of religious fundamentalism on women's reproductive health
- Roman Catholic fundamentalism
- reconciling the opposites
- Buddhism and human rights in the Thai sex trade. Part 7 Fashioning remedies in national context: women educating women in the Afghan diaspora
- challenging Christian fundamentalism
- gender-based asylum in the US
- tales of subversion. Part 8 Religious challenges to religious fundamentalism: a feminist perspective on Jewish fundamentalism
- feminist interpretations of Thai Buddhism
- religion and women's rights
- reclaiming the religious centre from a Muslim perspective.
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