Description: Bargaining for Women's Rights Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy By Alice Kang Publisher - University of Minnesota Press - 2015 - First Edition Condition - Good_________________ Outside of the BookSoftcover Covers - White and green with illustration and letteringBinding Condition - No issuesCovers, spine and page edges show only minor signs of use and shelf wear. Inside of the BookHandwritten Annotations - None Number of pages - 241Additional Points of Interest Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion, until now, has been a systematic examination of how civil society groups mobilize to promote women's rights and how multiple components of the state negotiate such legislation. In Bargaining for Women's Rights, Alice J. Kang argues that reform is more likely to happen when the struggle arises from within. Focusing on how a law on gender quotas and a United Nations treaty on ending discrimination against women passed in Niger while family law reform and an African Union protocol on women's rights did not, Kang shows how local women's associations are uniquely positioned to translate global concepts of democracy and human rights into concrete policy proposals. And yet, drawing on numerous interviews with women's rights activists as well as Islamists and politicians, she reveals that the former are not the only ones who care about the regulation of gender relations.
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Subject Area: Society, Gender Studies, Culture, Religion, Gender Issues
Publication Name: Bargaining for Women's Rights
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Society, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Format: Book, Paperback
Language: English
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Author: Alice J Kang
Level: Advanced, Technical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 241
