Muslim Women''s Quest for Justice - Gender, Law and Activism in India

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women's organisations in northern India.

Sommario

Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. From legal binaries to configurations: Muslim women's rights activism in South Asia; 2. A multidimensional approach to Muslim women's activism: mapping the legal landscape in the city of Lucknow; 3. Destabilising gendered proprieties: Muslim women's visibility within the public space; 4. Vying for a gender just Islamic marriage contract: women's legal spaces; 5. Legal realities: doing gender justice from below; 6. Muslim women's quest for justice: theoretical implications and policy suggestions; Appendices: model-nikahnamas; Glossary; Bibliography.

Info autore

Mengia Hong Tschalaer is a legal anthropologist with a focus on the relationship between politics of knowledge production, women's subjectivities, law, and Islam in contemporary India. Her scholarship specifically examines the micro-realities that shape people's understanding of women's rights and religion. She was a Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School and has also taught undergraduate courses on intersectionality, gender and sexuality, law and society, and culture and identity at the City University of New York and Columbia University, New York.

Riassunto

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women's organisations in northern India. It offers new directions for studies on the dispersed nature of women's identities in Islamic family law.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mengia Hong Tschalaer, Mengia (City University of New Yor Hong Tschalaer, Mengia (City University of New York) Hong Tschalaer, Mengia Hong Tschalaer
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107155770
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15577-0
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Law & society, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Law and society, sociology of law