Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fundamentalism....Pages 3-8
Christian Fundamentalism: Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Human Rights....Pages 9-20
What Is Your Tribe?: Women’s Struggles and the Construction of Muslimness....Pages 21-32
The Personal Is Political: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women’s Empowerment....Pages 33-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Relativism, Culture, Religion, and Identity....Pages 45-54
Cultural Relativism and International Law....Pages 55-66
Gender Apartheid and the Discourse of Relativity of Rights in Muslim Societies....Pages 67-77
Different but Free: Cultural Relativism and Women’s Rights as Human Rights....Pages 79-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Safeguarding Women’s Political Freedoms under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Face of Religious Fundamentalism....Pages 93-103
Religious Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: What Do They Really Mean?....Pages 105-116
Women’s Equal Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: An Important but Neglected Subject....Pages 117-127
The Potential of International Law to Combat Discrimination against Girls in Education....Pages 129-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The Two Faces of Secularism and Women’s Rights in India....Pages 143-153
Religion and Patriarchal Politics: The Israeli Experience....Pages 155-165
Family Disputes Involving Muslim Women in Contemporary Europe: Immigrant Women Caught between Islamic Family Law and Women’s Rights....Pages 167-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Finding Our Feet, Standing Our Ground: Reproductive Health Activism in an Era of Rising Fundamentalism and Economic Globalization....Pages 181-192
Roman Catholic Fundamentalism: What’s Sex (and Power) Got to Do with It?....Pages 193-202
Reconciling the Opposites: Equal but Subordinate....Pages 203-213
Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thai Sex Trade....Pages 215-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Women Educating Women in the Afghan Diaspora: Why and How....Pages 229-235
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Challenging Christian Fundamentalism: Organizing an Alternative to the Religious Right in Your State....Pages 237-245
Gender-Based Asylum in the United States: A View from the Trenches....Pages 247-256
Tales of Subversion: Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran....Pages 257-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
A Feminist Perspective on Jewish Fundamentalism....Pages 271-280
Truth over Convention: Feminist Interpretations of Buddhism....Pages 281-291
Religion and Women’s Rights: The Fundamentalist Face of Catholicism in Brazil....Pages 293-302
Reclaiming the Religious Center from a Muslim Perspective: Theological Alternatives to Religious Fundamentalism....Pages 303-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-326