Women, Agency and Religion (eBook, PDF)

Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
Redaktion: Valenzi, Ilaria

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how female agency is defined and exists on both Mediterranean shores. It focuses on the role of women believers in the processes of transformation of political contexts of the North African and Euro-Mediterranean area, and on the role of women within religions, questioning the latter's patriarchal traditions from inside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 363
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040276235
• Artikelnr.: 72290702

Autorenporträt

Ilaria Valenzi is a researcher in law and religion at the University of Milan and a member of the Scientific Council of the Redesm Research Centre at the University of Insubria. She is also adjunct professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she works on the religious factor in determining the role of politics and law in the global space. Her research focuses on post-secular freedom of religion and belief and religious minorities at the intersection of other personal and collective identity factors.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women, religions, and human rights in the Mediterranean
context; 1. Gender, citizenship, religious identity: innovative approaches
to autonomy and political agency; 2. Feminist-religious intersections
across the Mediterranean; 3. The role of European private law in rendering
women's participation to public space effective; 4. Queer as a lesson in
reality; 5. Women in the Catholic Church: (de)sacralising boundaries; 6.
Commitment to gender equality and human rights - an idealistic passion?; 7.
Fèminismes laïques, secular feminists and Islamic feminisms in Muslim
countries: experiences in the Maghreb; 8. Islamist women's mobilization and
agency in the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath in Egypt; 9. Gender
equality and Islam: experiences in Morocco; 10. Algerian citizenship
between the principle of equality and freedom of enterprise; 11. Gender
Equality in political participation in Libya: the transition's
controversial assessment; 12. Women and political parties in contemporary
Türkiye; 13. The structural inequalities in laws and practices and their
impact on women's agency in Lebanon: the long battle for gender equality