Self-determination and women's rights in Muslim societies
By: edited by Chitra Raghavan and James P. Levine
Series: HBI series on gender, culture, religion, and law
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611682793; 9781611682809; 9781611682816
Subjects: Women; Equality before the law; Legal status, laws; Islam; Women's rights
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of abortion policy in the heterogeneous "muslim world" / by  Anissa Hølie; title: Promoting a violence against women law in Morocco : legislative advocacy / by Grassroots-level NGOs, by Saida Kouzzi with Stephanie Willman Bordat; title: No way out : the dual subordination of Muslim women in Indian legal culture / by Aziza Ahmed; title: Reconsidering talaq : marriage, divorce, and sharia reform in the Republic of Maldives / by Anthony Marcus; title: Female circumcision in Southeast Asia since the coming of Islam / by William G. Clarence-Smith; title: The Moudawana and rural marital relationships : reformed or resolute / by Katja Zvan Elliott; title: Negotiating female genital cutting (Sunat) in Southern Thailand / by Claudia Merli; title: The marriage contract in the Maghreb : challenges and opportunities for women's rights / by Stephanie Willman Bordat with Saida Kouzzi; title: Unsatisfactory aspects of women's rights to property in Uganda and proposals for reform / by Anthony Luyirika Kafumbe; title: Triangulating reform in family law : the state, religion, and women's rights in comparative perspective / by Yøksel Sezgin; title: Contemporary Iranian feminisms : definitions, narratives, and identity / by Roja Fazaeli.