Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

الغلاف الأمامي
C. Howland
Springer, 03‏/09‏/1999 - 326 من الصفحات
Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some 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. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these 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.

من داخل الكتاب

المحتوى

II Responses to Religious Fundamentalist Assertions of Cultural Relativism
43
The International Legal Framework
91
IV Religious Fundamentalism and National Laws
140
Sexuality and Reproduction
179
VI Nonlegal Remedies Resistance and Exit
227
VII Religious Challenges to Religious Fundamentalism
268
CONTRIBUTORS
315
INDEX
323
حقوق النشر

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

نبذة عن المؤلف (1999)

COURTNEY W. HOWLAND is Visiting Scholar in Residence at the International Women's Human Rights Center at Georgetown University Law Center.

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