Religious fundamentalisms and the human rights of women /

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Other Authors: Howland, Courtney W., 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, c1999
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Table of 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