Women's rights and religious law : domestic and international perspectives / edited by Fareda Banda and Lisa Fishhbayn Joffe.

Contributor(s): Banda, Fareda [editor.] | Joffe, Lisa Fishbayn [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Law and religion (Series) (Routledge (Firm)): Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Description: ix, 317 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138855977 (hbk); 1138855979 (hbk)Subject(s): Women -- Legal status, laws, etc | Women and religion | Religious law and legislation | Women's rights | Religious law and legislation | Women and religion | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc | Women's rights | Frau | Recht | Religion | GeschlechtDDC classification: 342.08/78 LOC classification: K644 | .W64478 2016
Contents:
Culture, religion and women's international human rights / Frances Raday -- Marriage, religion and gender equality / John Eekelaar -- Gender, religion and human rights in Africa / Fareda Banda -- Implications of the Vatican commitment to complementarity for the equality of the sexes in public life / Mary Anne Case -- Between strict constructionist sharia and protecting young girls in contemporary northern Nigeria : the case of child marriage (ijbar) / Sarah Eltantawi -- Family law reform, spousal relations, and the "intentions of Islamic law" / Celene Ibrahim -- The woes of WoW : the Women of the Wall as a religious social movement and as a metaphor / Pnina Lahav -- Religious coercion and violence against women : the case of Beit Shemesh / Sima Zalcberg Block -- The impact of "foreign law" bans on the struggle for women's equality under Jewish law in the United States of America / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Systemic misunderstanding between rabbinical courts and civil courts : the perspective of an American rabbinical court judge / Aryeh Klapper -- Socio-legal gendered remedies to get refusal : top down, bottom up / Yael Machtinger -- Challenging stereotypes : gender sensitive- imams and the resolution of family disputes in Montreal / Anne Saris.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-306) and index.

Culture, religion and women's international human rights / Frances Raday -- Marriage, religion and gender equality / John Eekelaar -- Gender, religion and human rights in Africa / Fareda Banda -- Implications of the Vatican commitment to complementarity for the equality of the sexes in public life / Mary Anne Case -- Between strict constructionist sharia and protecting young girls in contemporary northern Nigeria : the case of child marriage (ijbar) / Sarah Eltantawi -- Family law reform, spousal relations, and the "intentions of Islamic law" / Celene Ibrahim -- The woes of WoW : the Women of the Wall as a religious social movement and as a metaphor / Pnina Lahav -- Religious coercion and violence against women : the case of Beit Shemesh / Sima Zalcberg Block -- The impact of "foreign law" bans on the struggle for women's equality under Jewish law in the United States of America / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Systemic misunderstanding between rabbinical courts and civil courts : the perspective of an American rabbinical court judge / Aryeh Klapper -- Socio-legal gendered remedies to get refusal : top down, bottom up / Yael Machtinger -- Challenging stereotypes : gender sensitive- imams and the resolution of family disputes in Montreal / Anne Saris.

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