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Religious fundamentalisms and the human rights of women /

Title:
Religious fundamentalisms and the human rights of women /
Published:
New York : c1999.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Sherrill
Contents:
Fundamentalism / John Stratton Hawley -- Christian fundamentalism: patriarchy, sexuality, and human rights / Susan D. Rose -- What is your tribe?: women's struggles and the construction on Muslimness / Marie-Aimþee Hþelie-Lucas -- The personal is political: Jewish fundamentalism and women's empowerment / Nira Yuval-Davis -- Relativism, culture, religion, and identity / Michael Singer -- Cultural relativism and international law / Christine Chinkin -- Gender apartheid and the discourse of relativity of rights in Muslim societies / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Different but free: cultural relativism and women's rights as human rights / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- Safeguarding women's political freedoms under the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the face of religious fundamentalism / Courtney W. Howland -- Religious reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: what do they really mean? / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Women's equal right to freedom of religion or belief: an important but neglected subject / Bahia G. Tahzib-Lie -- The potential of international law to combat discrimination against girls in education / Geraldine Van Bueren and Deirdre Fottrell -- The two faces of secularism and women's rights in India / Ratna Kapur -- Religion and patriarchal politics: the Israeli experience / Frances Raday -- Family disputes involving Muslim women in contemporary Europe: immigrant women caught between Islamic family law and women's rights / Marie-Claire S.F.G. Foblets-- Finding out feet, standing our ground: reproductive health activism in an era of rising fundamentalism and economic globalization / Lynn P. Freedman -- Roman Catholic fundamentalism: what's sex (and power) got to do with it? / Frances Kissling -- Reconciling the opposites: equal but subordinate / Asma M. Abdel Halim -- Buddhism and human rights in the Thai sex trade / Lucinda Joy Peach -- Women educating women in the Afghan diaspora: why and how / Sakena Yacoobi -- Challenging Christian fundamentalism: organizing an alternative to the religious right in your state / Cecile Richards -- Gender-based asylum in the United States: a view from the trenches / Paul Nejelski -- Tales of subversion: women challenging fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Azar Nafisi -- A feminist perspective on Jewish fundamentalism / Paula E. Hyman -- Truth over convention: feminist interpretations of Buddhism / Suwanna Satha-Anand -- Religion and women's rights: the fundamentalist face of Catholicism in Brazil / Maria Josþe F. Rosado Nunes -- Reclaiming the religious center from a Muslim perspective: theological alternatives to religious fundamentalism / Ghazala Anwar.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley/EDS-Sherrill Library Main Stacks
K3243 .R45 1999 – Available