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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312228125
Subjects: Anthropology - Cultural; Comparative Religion; International Relations - General; Political Science / International Relations; Religion-Comparative Religion; Social Science / Women's Studies; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Women's Studies - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Cross-cultural studies; Globalization; Women in Islam; Women in the Catholic Church; Women's rights; Politics/International Relations
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.