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Foreword | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xi |
Social and Political Sciences Perspectives on the Impact of Religious Fundamentalism on Women | |
Fundamentalism | p. 3 |
Christian Fundamentalism: Patriar Chy, Sexuality, and Human Rights | p. 9 |
What is Your Tribe?: Women's Struggles and the Construction of Muslimness | p. 21 |
The Personal is Political: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment | p. 33 |
Responses to Religious Fundamentalist Assertions of Cultural Relativism | |
Relativism, Culture, Religion, and Identity | p. 45 |
Cultural Relativism and International Law | p. 55 |
Gender Apartheid and the Discourse of Relativity of Rights in Muslim Societies | p. 67 |
Different But Free: Cultural Relativism and Women's Rights as Human Rights | p. 79 |
The Conflict between the Human Rights of Women and the Religious Freedom of Fundamentalists: The International Legal Framework | |
Safeguarding Women's Political Freedoms Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Face of Religious Fundamentalism | p. 93 |
Religious Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: What Do They Really Mean? | p. 105 |
Women's Equal Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: an Important But Neglected Subject | p. 117 |
The Potential of International Law to Combat Discrimination Against Girls in Education | p. 129 |
Religious Fundamentalism and National Laws | |
The Two Faces of Secularism and Women's Rights in India | p. 143 |
Religion and Patriarchal Politics: the Israeli Experience | p. 155 |
Family Disputes Involving Muslim Women in Contemporary Europe: Immigrant Women Caught Between Islamic Family Law and Women's Rights | p. 167 |
The War over Women's Bodies: Sexuality and Reproduction | |
Finding Our Feet, Standing Our Ground: Reproductive Health Activism in an Era of Rising Fundamentalism and Economic Globalization | p. 181 |
Roman Catholic Fundamentalism: What's Sex (and Power) Got to Do With It? | p. 193 |
Reconciling the Opposites: Equal But Subordinate | p. 203 |
Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thai Sex Trade | p. 215 |
Nonlegal Remedies, Resistance, and Exit | |
Women Educating Women in the Afghan Diaspora: Why and How | p. 229 |
Challenging Christian Fundamentalism: Organizing an Alternative to the Religious Right in Your State | p. 237 |
Gender-Based Asylum in the United States: a View from the Trenches | p. 247 |
Tales of Subversion: Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran | p. 257 |
Religious Challenges to Religious Fundamentalism | |
A Feminist Perspective on Jewish Fundamentalism | p. 271 |
Truth Over Convention: Feminist Interpretations of Buddhism | p. 281 |
Religion and Women's Rights: the Fundamentalist Face of Catholicism in Brazil | p. 293 |
Reclaiming the Religious Center from a Muslim Perspective: Theological Alternatives to Religious Fundamentalism | p. 303 |
Contributors | p. 315 |
Index | p. 323 |
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