The status of women and minority faculty: Changing or unchanging?

This article examines the state of Islamic jurisprudence with regard to many sensitive issues, such as the status of women and minorities in Islam, Islam and Democracy, hudud punishments. The author explores the current state of Islamic discourse on jurisprudence and identifies three approaches-traditional, secular and reformist. The paper explores the positions of the traditional ulama and the reformist mujtahids on the mentioned topics and finds the reformist position more sensible and closer to the position of ihe Qur'an and Sunnah. This paper while advocating neo-ijtihad, makes an impressive case for the merit???? and Islamic credibility of the reformist jurisprudence.

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Keeping It in the Family: Female Inheritance, Inmarriage, and the Status of Women

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3250395 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Duman Bahrami-Rad

Keyword(s):

The Family ◽

The Status ◽

Status Of Women

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Women and Agency in Bankim’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Tagore’s The Home and The World

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities ◽

10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s16n3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Manju Dhariwal ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

The Self ◽

Indian English ◽

Colonial India ◽

English Novel ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Insight Into ◽

Status Of Women

Written almost half a century apart, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) and The Home and the World (1916) can be read as women centric texts written in colonial India. The plot of both the texts is set in Bengal, the cultural and political centre of colonial India. Rajmohan’s Wife, arguably the first Indian English novel, is one of the first novels to realistically represent ‘Woman’ in the nineteenth century. Set in a newly emerging society of India, it provides an insight into the status of women, their susceptibility and dependence on men. The Home and the World, written at the height of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, presents its woman protagonist in a much progressive space. The paper closely examines these two texts and argues that women enact their agency in relational spaces which leads to the process of their ‘becoming’. The paper analyses this journey of the progress of the self, which starts with Matangini and culminates in Bimala. The paper concludes that women’s journey to emancipation is symbolic of the journey of the nation to independence.

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Komunistki

The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.30 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 671-692

Author(s):

Aga Skrodzka

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Visual Memory ◽

Women's Movement ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

The Public ◽

The Status ◽

The Commons ◽

Communist Past ◽

Status Of Women

This article argues for the importance of preserving the visual memory of female communist agency in today’s Poland, at the time when the nation’s relationship to its communist past is being forcefully rearticulated with the help of the controversial Decommunization Act, which affects the public space of the commons. The wholesale criminalization of communism by the ruling conservative forces spurred a wave of historical and symbolic revisions that undermine the legacy of the communist women’s movement, contributing to the continued erosion of women’s rights in Poland. By looking at recent cinema and its treatment of female communists as well as the newly published accounts of the communist women’s movement provided by feminist historians and sociologists, the project sheds light on current cultural debates that address the status of women in postcommunist Poland and the role of leftist legacy in such debates.

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