Cyberspace as Emerging Muslim Discursive Space? Online Fatawa On Women and Gender Relations and its Impact on Muslim Family Law Norms

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Muslim Family

Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840–1908)

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Whitney Walton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
National Library ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
And Gender

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.

Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Edited by Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. 310 pp. $19.95; £13.95. ISBN 0-620-22276-8.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Harriet Evans
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Complex Fluid ◽  
And Gender

Recent Western research on women and gender in Chinese history has raised critical questions about many of the familiar narratives of China's Confucian tradition. This research – much of it the work of contributors to this volume – has produced perspectives on gender relations that are at once more complex, fluid and historically plausible than the standard assumptions of Confucian discourse would suggest.

scholarly journals A Most Masculine State

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-117
Author(s):  
Amr G. E. Sabet
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrow Definition ◽  
And Gender

This book examines the “plight” of women and gender relations in an attemptto give voice to an excluded and marginalized group in the closed and conservativesociety of Saudi Arabia (pp. 1, 2). Al-Rashid problematizes the“woman question,” designating it as both a state and a social problem that defiesconsensus regarding its causes and solutions, where giving voice becomesthe first step toward reclaiming denied rights. She contextualizes her study bylooking at the historical roots and “interconnection between gender, politics,and religion that shapes and perpetuates the persistent exclusion of Saudiwomen” (p. 3). By so doing, Al-Rashid essentially depicts the roots of this“extreme form of gender inequality” as structural and related to the complexrelationship between the Saudi state and the Wahhabi religious establishment.This relationship, which takes the form of religious nationalism, provided fora narrow definition and interpretation of just who was entitled to belong to the pious community. Narrow interpretations of rituals and jurisprudence, aswell as how gender relations are to be conducted or acquire validity, both createdand exacerbated the social and religious boundaries within Saudi societyand between it and other Muslim cultural interpretations ...

Islamic Law and Gender

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natana DeLong-Bas
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
And Gender

Studies of gender in Islamic law combine methodologies from two distinct fields of study: Islamic law, and women and gender. While Western scholarly study of Islamic law began in earnest during the era of Orientalist scholarship (late 19th through mid-20th centuries), focusing largely on questions of origins and mechanics, particularly outlining rules and regulations and the rights and duties of various groups of people, the application of women and gender methodologies to Islamic law dates to the 1980s, with substantial work beginning in the 1990s. Since then, the field has expanded to include case studies of different times, places, and variations between law schools (madhhabs), comparative analyses, and attention to contemporary reform efforts, particularly in family law.

scholarly journals Swept Under the Rug? A Historiography of Gender and Black Colleges

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 760-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marybeth Gasman
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Black Colleges ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice ◽  
And Gender

This historiography of gender and black colleges uncovers the omission of women and gender relations. It uses an integrative framework, conceptualized by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, that considers race and gender as mutually interconnected, revealing different results than might be seen by considering these issues independently. The article is significant for historians and non-historians alike and has implications for educational policy and practice in the current day.

A Prolonged Abrogation? The Capitulations, the 1917 Law of Family Rights, and the Ottoman Quest for Sovereignty during World War 1

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Kate Dannies ◽  
Stefan Hock
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
World War ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
The Family ◽  
French And English ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe 1917 promulgation of a new Ottoman family law is recognized as a landmark moment in the history of Islamic law by scholars of women and gender in the Middle East. Yet the significance of the 1917 law in the struggle over religious jurisdiction, political power, and Ottoman sovereignty has been overlooked in the scholarship on both Ottoman legal reform and World War 1. Drawing on Ottoman Turkish, German, French, and English sources linking internal interpretations of the law and external reactions to its passage, we reinterpret adoption of the family law as a key moment in the geopolitics of World War 1. We demonstrate that passage of the law was a critical turning point in the wartime process of abrogating the capitulations and eliminating the last vestiges of legal extraterritoriality in the Ottoman Empire. The law is situated in its wartime political context and the geopolitical milieu of larger Europe to demonstrate that, although short-lived, the 1917 family law was a centerpiece of the wartime struggle to define extraterritorial rights of the Ottoman Empire, the Great Powers, and their protégés within the empire.

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