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

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

Name: Muslim Women's Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107155770
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Author: Mengia Hong Tschalaer
ISBN: 9781107155770

By Mengia Hong Tschalaer

Cambridge University Press April 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781107155770
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: April 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book is an urban ethnographic study of several Muslim women's organisations in northern India. These organisations work to carve out spaces that allow for the articulation of alternative experiences and conceptions of religion and justice that challenge Islamic orthodoxy as well as the monopoly of the Indian state in the domain of family law.

While most analyses on reform efforts within Muslim family law in India have focused on women's protection within the state legal system, this book offers the rare opportunity to understand how organised groups of Muslim women's rights activists contest marginalising forces present in the family and criminal courts, Shariat courts, local mosques, workplace, legislature and legal documents. It pushes against troubling assumptions that Islam is incompatible with ideas of women's rights and that the State is the only dispenser of justice, and offers new directions for studies on the dispersed nature of women's identities in Islamic family law.

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.