Globalization, Gender, and Religion
Subtitle: The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts
Contributors: Jane Bayes (Editor); Nayereh Tohidi (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 17, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312293697
Subjects: Comparative Religion; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Women's studies; World history; History; Sociology; History: World; Russia; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Women's Studies - General; Cross-cultural studies; Globalization; Women in Islam; Women in the Catholic Church; Women's rights
First sentence: Unlike the previous world conferences on women, the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, held in the post-Cold War context, was not characterized by intense ideological disputes over grand theories or between the left and right.