Mengia Hong Tschalaer

Muslim Women's Quest for Justice

Gender, Law and Activism in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781107155770
• ISBN-10: 1107155770
• Artikelnr.: 48223650

Autorenporträt

Mengia Hong Tschalaer is a legal anthropologist with a focus on the relationship between politics of knowledge production, women's subjectivities, law, and Islam in contemporary India. Her scholarship specifically examines the micro-realities that shape people's understanding of women's rights and religion. She was a Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School and has also taught undergraduate courses on intersectionality, gender and sexuality, law and society, and culture and identity at the City University of New York and Columbia University, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

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.