Muslim Women's Quest for Justice
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Muslim Women's Quest for Justice

Gender, Law and Activism in India

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Muslim Women's Quest for Justice

Gender, Law and Activism in India

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781107155770
eBook ISBN
9781108226080
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice
  3. Series Editors
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Chapter 1: From Legal Binaries to Configurations: Muslim Women’s Rights Activism in South Asia
  12. Chapter 2: A Multidimensional Approach to Muslim Women’s Activism: Mapping the Legal Landscape in the City of Lucknow
  13. Chapter 3: Destabilising Gendered Proprieties: Muslim Women’s Visibility within the Public Space
  14. Chapter 4: Vying for a Gender Just Islamic Marriage Contract: Women’s Legal Spaces
  15. Chapter 5: Legal Realities: Doing Gender Justice from Below
  16. Chapter 6: Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Theoretical Implications and Policy Suggestions
  17. Appendices
  18. Glossary
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index