Muslim Women's Quest for Justice : Gender, Law and Activism in India
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
ISBN-10
1107155770
ISBN-13
9781107155770
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 4th, 2017
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 23.80 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Gender studies: womenIslamic studiesLaw & society
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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.
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.
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