Competing fundamentalisms and Egyptian women's family rights
Subtitle: international law and the reform of Shari'a-derived legislation
By: by Jasmine Moussa
Series: Brill's Arab and Islamic laws series -- v. 4; Brill's Arab and Islamic laws series -- v. 4.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789004203099
Subjects: Legal status, laws; Women (Islamic law); Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: The human rights of women in a specific cultural context; title: The sources of international women's rights law and international enforcement mechanisms; title: The prohibition of gender discrimination under CEDAW and the role of the CEDAW committee; title: Shari'a-based reservations : the law and politics of invalidity; title: Shari'a law and the development of Egypt's personal status legislation; title: Gender (in)equality and the Shari'a in Egypt's constitution : the role of the Supreme Constitutional Court's jurisprudence; title: Marriage, divorce, and inheritance : unequal power structures and women's equality rights; title: The positive prospects for personal status law reform : two steps forward; title: Domestic enforcement of women's human rights.