Muslim women's quest for justice : gender, law and activism in India / Mengia Hong Tschalaer.

By:

Tschalaer, Mengia Hong [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Delhi, India ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781107155770 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

346.5401/5 23

LOC classification:

KNS540 .T75 2017

Contents:

From legal binaries to configurations : Muslim women's rights activism in South Asia -- A multidimensional approach to Muslim women's activism : mapping the legal landscape in the city of Lucknow -- Destabilising gendered proprieties : Muslim women's visibility within the public space -- Vying for a gender just Islamic marriage contract : women's legal spaces -- Legal realities : doing gender justice from below -- Muslim women's quest for justice: theoretical implications and policy suggestions.

Summary: "Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"-- Provided by publisher.

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Based on author's thesis (doctoral -University of Zurich, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"-- Provided by publisher.

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