scholarly journals The Big Other Gender, PAtriarki, dan Wacana Agama dalam Karya Sastra Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yulia Nasrul Latifi ◽  
Wening Udasmoro
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
External Factor ◽  
Gender Issue ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Holy Book ◽  
Reading Texts

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap struktur yang menstrukturkan wacana agama sehingga menjadi patriarkis dan misoginis dalam tiga karya fiksi “Adab Am Qillah Adab?”, “Qiṣṣah Fatḥiyyah al-Miṣriyyah”, dan Zīnah karya Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī dengan perspektif the big Other dan metode interpretasi. Penelitian ini dinilai penting disebabkan mayoritas kajian gender dan agama masih terfokus pada problem hermeneutik mikro (asbabunnuzul ayat) dan belum mengungkapkan kenapa bahasa kitab suci itu bias. The big Other adalah struktur atau aturan simbolik yang menyebabkan subjek terkungkung sehingga The Symbolic sebagai jangkar subjek semakin tiranik. Sebagai bagian dari teori subjektivitas yang dikenalkan Žižek, the big Other mengandung lack sehingga tidak dapat melakukan totalisasi dan dapat dikritisi subjek. Hasil analisisnya adalah, the big Other internal (irasionalitas dan kontra-faktualitas) dan eksternal (faktor ekonomi dan politik) yang menjadikan konstruksi patriarkis dalam bahasa kitab suci yang kemudian distrukturkan dalam nalar wacana agama. Lack dalam the big Other menjadikannya struktur terbuka sehingga selalu dikritik dan dilawan oleh subjek narasi untuk memperjuangkan otonomi perempuan dalam wacana agama. [The research talks about revealing with religion point of structuralism discourse on patriarchal and misogynic in three works of "Adab Am Qillah Adab?", "Qiṣṣah Fatḥiyyah al-Miṣriyyah" and Zīnah by Nawāl Al-Sa'dāwī which is seeing the Big Other of gender issue and the method of exegeses texts. The value of research takes on gender and religion with focus micro-hermeneutical problems (asbabunnuzul of verses) and language and holy book on reading texts with a biased view. The big Another issue is a case with a symbolic rule to becomes a patriarchal image on perennial discourse. It is to be a traumatic woman incident on religious tyrannies. As part of Žižek's theory, the Big Other issues contain lack meaning with no perfect talk discuss. The points analyses are the internal factor (irrationality and kontra-factuality) and the external factor (the economic and political factors). Perennial discourses make for reading Al-Qur'an with patriarchal power. "Lack" in the Big Other issues makes the open-minded for challenge and critic for women's rights issues in Religion Studies.]

scholarly journals Women’s Rights and Colonization in The Short Story of The Jakarta Post

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ferdinal Ferdinal
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Rights Issues

Right after the fall of Suharto’s regime, Indonesia has undergone tremendous changes in almost all aspects of life: political, economic, social, cultural, and possibly ideological lives. The changes bring new breaths to Indonesian future, especially in the area of women’s rights. This article discusses the issue of women’s rights in Indonesia based on a textual analysis. The purpose of this writing is to investigate the representation of women’s rights issues in some stories of The Jakarta Post, one of the most popular media which has also played an important role in popularizing and spreading such issues. Postcolonial criticism is used to see how the stories portray the issues of women’s rights, particularly gender equality and marginality. To study the issues, this analysis looks at two short stories: “Gender Equality” by Iwan Setiawan and “Street Smart Mom” by Eric Musa Piliang.  The two stories represent the fact that Indonesian women fight against colonization for their rights in some different ways, as a smart wife and a poor street mother. The stories signal that Indonesian women struggle to escape from colonization through some actions such as moving forward to the center of power by maintaining superiority against men and living their lives as they wish in spite of being poor.

scholarly journals Analysis and Review of Wife Inheritance and the Parents of the Deceased in the Religions with Holy Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Ahmad Reza Behniafar ◽  
Maryam Saadat Eftekhariyan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Critical Argument ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Holy Book

<p>To talk about human rights in the new and modern format and is one of the most important features of the contemporary era and in which, the rights of women is of particular importance. Elimination of legal discrimination due to gender, in different aspects of the life of human rights, with emphasis on women's rights forms the primary focus of all regional and international treaties and Declaration of women's rights. Defending financial rights of women including women's inheritance right is a critical argument.</p>With a careful study, we find that in various religions, wife inheritance is accepted and in divine religions (with the holy book). This issue has been respected and regarding form, there are similarities between the religions about the wife inheritance, However, apart from similarities, regarding essence, they have legislative differences. So in this seminar, the wife inheritance in divine religions is explained and analyzed, and comparative review of wife and parents estate of deceased in different religions is done so the problems in this regard can be obviated.

Democracy, Oil, or Religion? Expanding Women's Rights in the Muslim World

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neilan S. Chaturvedi ◽  
Orlando Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Oil Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
Using Data

AbstractOf the 45 Muslim majority countries in the world, 42 have signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. While this does indeed signal a motive to improve women's rights, there is wide disparity in terms of which countries expand rights and which do not. Social science literature suggests that in addition to economic factors like wealth and oil resources, or political factors like the quality of democracy in the country, Islamic culture may be at odds with the Western conception of women's rights. We posit that Muslim countries are unique in this regard due to religious pressures that often conflict with conventional measures of human rights. Using data from the Cingranelli-Richards Human Rights Dataset and the Religion and State Project, we find that Muslim countries that restrict the influence of fundamentalist religion in the government and population improve women's economic and social rights.

Women's Rights Issues Among Bombay Parsis: A Legal Anthropologist's Thoughts on Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 1215-1223
Author(s):  
Sylvia Vatuk
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rights Issues

I focus in this essay on legal issues related to women's rights in the British colonial period that are discussed in Mitra Sharafi's 2014 book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772–1947. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, the Parsi leadership actively lobbied for laws related to intestate inheritance, women's property rights, divorce, and child marriage that were consistent with their community's customary values and practices. During the same period, legal reform movements were also underway on behalf of Hindu and Muslim women and, to a lesser extent, Christian women. This essay highlights some of the common themes in those movements and discusses, in particular, the similarities and differences in what was achieved for Parsi women and their Hindu sisters, as they and their respective male leaders traversed the road toward greater gender equality under the law.

scholarly journals Filming the Motherland: Gendered Violence and Pakistani Female Empowerment in Dukhtar and My Pure Land

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainabb Hull
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Rights Issues

The revival of Pakistani cinema in the mid-2000s has heralded several successful films tackling relevant social issues, such as national identity, terrorism, and gendered violence. Pakistani filmmakers both at home and in the diaspora are using cinema to address women's rights issues within Pakistani communities worldwide whilst challenging simplistic and imperialist western perceptions of Pakistan and its people. This article analyses two recent female-led films from diasporic filmmakers: Afia Nathaniel’s Dukhtar (2014) and Sarmad Masud’s My Pure Land (2017). Each film features female leads navigating gendered violence, patriarchal oppression, and Pakistani cultural identity to explore the filmmakers’ own complicated relationships with the ‘motherland’, expressing a sense of belonging and nostalgic affection for Pakistan whilst holding the nation accountable for upholding patriarchal cultural values, in order to reveal paths towards gender equality and female empowerment in global Pakistani communities. Positive critical reception within Pakistan highlights both the difficulties faced by filmmakers addressing women's rights issues and the desire for Pakistani social dramas, indicating new possibilities within the media landscape. There remains a lack of insight into audience reception to new films addressing women's rights issues, and future research must examine how this new cinema might provoke and inspire positive social change within real world communities and for Pakistani women around the world. Nonetheless, in the production and global critical reception of Dukhtar and My Pure Land, there is evidence of Pakistan’s slow progress and growing enthusiasm for gender equality and safety, and of challenges to oppressive western perceptions of Pakistan that lead to paternalistic and racist treatment of South Asian women. These films prioritise the need for social change to come from within the community, offering up possible role models and futures for a Pakistan that is safe and fair for people of all genders.

scholarly journals RIGHTS OF WOMEN DURING PRE-MARRIAGE FROM QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVES WITH CROSS-REFERENCE TO THE LAW IN MALAYSIA: AN ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Nadzrah Ahmad ◽  
Rahmawati Mohd Yusoff ◽  
Mohammad Hidir Baharudin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Cross Reference ◽  
Rights Issues

Women’s rights issues have marked their spot as one of the most debated issues throughout the centuries. Whenever the issue is raised, the topic of marriage is the most highlighted concerning the discussion. Marriage is regularly portrayed as an “oppressive sphere” for women, with their rights being oppressed since the moment of pre-marriage, especially in Islam. However, further reflection on the issue has shown that Islamic matrimony liberates women, preserves their honor and place in society, and abolishes injustice when guided in principle from the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which will be examined in this research. The paper will also analyse the issue in the law of Malaysia and supported by the case law if any. In addition, reference will also be made to the opinions of the scholars regarding the conflicting issue of the rights of women during pre-marriage. Regrettably, Muslims’ misunderstanding due to cultural interpretation and mispractice of original Islamic teachings have tainted the true Islamic ideal. It is hoped that the study may provide a clear reference and guideline regarding the rights of women during pre-marriage from both the Islamic and Malaysian laws as this topic is highly significant and beneficial to numerous parties in the present day.

Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-580
Author(s):  
Timothy Reese Cain ◽  
Rachael Dier
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Deep South ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
The University ◽  
External Stimuli

Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively untouched. The second occurred in 1972 when the university responded to salacious allegations of immorality in women's residence halls by replacing progressive residential education programming with the policing of student behavior. This article centers student efforts for women's rights, demonstrates how students and administrators shifted tactics in reaction to external stimuli, and explores the repercussions of challenging the entrenched patriarchal power structure. In so doing, it joins the growing literature complicating understandings of student activism in the era by focusing attention away from the most famous and extreme cases.

scholarly journals Amnesty International and Women's Rights

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Ganzfried
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Internal Resistance ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Amnesty International ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Rights Issues

Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally, the book demonstrates that, despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign, internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the organization's overall work.

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