TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tschalaer,Mengia Hong
TI  - Muslim women's quest for justice: gender, law and activism in India 
SN  - 9781107155770 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - KNS540 .T75 2017
U1  - 346.5401/5 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Delhi, India, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Domestic relations
KW  - India
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
N1  - Based on author's thesis (doctoral -University of Zurich, 2013); Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--
ER  -