Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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Book Overview
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815626681
ISBN13:9780815626688
Release Date:July 1995
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Excellant Record of an Unnoticed Struggle!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book provides a wonderful foundation for understanding the cultural norms which allow human rights violations to occur, and the foreign policy implications which allow them to be unnoticed. This book will make you want to change our policies. It enhanced my understanding of the struggles of Muslim women. A definate must read.
Insightful and Educational.......a real life tear jerker.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
An excellant record of the link between faith, and religion and human rights. I would suggest that anyone interested in religious rights, women's rights, and the US foreign policy response to these issues, read this book.
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