Internationalism and Europeanisation in the Struggle Over Gender Equality: Women’s Rights/Feminist Movement in Turkey

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-130
Author(s):  
Elif Uzgören
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

AniLid: A. Augspurg i L. Gustava Heymann – feministki i pacyfistki z przełomu wieków jako patronki współczesnego ruchu lesbijskiego w Niemczech

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Dadej
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
The Way

Lida Gustava Heymann and Anita Augspurg - activists of the first-wave radical German feminist movement - recently became the patrons of contemporary nonheterosexual women in their struggle for women's rights. This choice of patrons is not accidental: for more than 40 years, Anita and Lida Gustava constituted a community of interests, activism, and emotions. But what does this couple, which lived a century ago and never came out of the closet, have in common with the contemporary feminist and lesbian movement? Was this choice unquestionably right? It certainly forces us to ask whether the contemporary feminist-lesbian movement is a new quality or whether it continues attitudes and postulates from a hundred years ago. Augspurg's and Heyman's example (the way their memory is present in the contemporary lesbian movement) is significant. The two figures, their commitment, their influence on the women's and pacifist movement, as well as their attitude towards homosexuality constitute the main themes of this introductory paper.

Chaki Sircar, Manjusri (1934–2000) and Sircar, Ranjabati (1963–1999)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prarthana Purkayastha
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Literary Sources

In early 1980s, Manjusri Chaki Sircar and her daughter, Ranjabati Sircar, coined the term Navanritya or New Dance for their methodology of dance training and choreography. The Sircars’ New Dance emerged from the Bengal region of India in a period that simultaneously witnessed a nationwide upsurge of women’s rights movements and the rise of right-wing antifeminist politics. Energized by the feminist movement, the Sircars challenged and critiqued patriarchal frameworks governing the production of dance for the modern Indian stage. They questioned, both through their dancing bodies as well as through their published work, existing conventions of dance performance such as the stereotypical representation of women in performance. They presented highly innovative and subversive dance works that provided fresh, startling, and contemporary interpretations of available literary sources and inherited dance-drama traditions.

Gender equality in different readings of Islam in post-revolutionary Iran

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Revival Movements ◽  
And Gender

This chapter offers an understanding of women's rights and gender equality based on three interpretations of Islam within the context of post-revolutionary Iran. The debate among different interpretations of Islam provides a foundation for the investigation of women's rights and gender equality in various readings of Islam not only in the regional dimensions of Iran, but also in the Islamic world. While some studies and academic discussions tend to use the term fundamentalism to refer to religious revival movements, particularly within Islamic traditions, such discussions often fail to distinguish reformist and other movements within Islam, therefore identifying all Islamic revival movements as fundamentalist or as part of fundamentalist movements.

A Bold Call for Middle Eastern Feminism

2015 ◽  
Vol 114 (776) ◽  
pp. 364-365
Author(s):  
Valentine M. Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Reforms

In her new book, Mona Eltahawy argues that a sexual revolution is needed in the region to overcome religious ideologies that oppress women's rights. Without progress toward gender equality, broader political reforms are bound to fail.

Fetal Rights, Women's Rights: Gender Equality in the Workplace

1997 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Joyce Gelb ◽  
Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Fetal Rights
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