scholarly journals CONTEXTUALISATION OF WOMEN ABUSE IN AFRICA: BIBLICAL AND AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
armstrong chanda
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Female Infertility ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Human History ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Women Abuse ◽  
Abuse Of Women

The Women related abuses such oppressions and inequalities have been dominant in the man –woman relationship throughout out human history. Narrations in biblical discourses to anthropological records in Africa have reviewed this phenomenon. Contextuality and plurality of women abuse can be seen in famine/poverty, female infertility and woman beauty. Patriarchal culture and biblical interpretations have been regarded as channels of gender inequality and abuse of women. The tendency of women to wait upon Gods vindication in their abuse has not been feeble contributor to women marginalization. Women abuse takes place also in modern society. African societies have notoriously headlined in the inequality, oppression of women’s rights and abuse of other forms. At the center of this phenomenon in is its cultures that tend to favour men to women and patriarchal in nature. The African scenario and biblical discourses of women tend to meet in culture.

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.

scholarly journals Hak-hak Perempuan dalam Tafsīr Firdaws al-Na‘īm bi Tawḍīḥ Ma‘ānī Āyāt al-Qur’ān al-Karīm Karya KH. Thoifur ‘Ali Wafa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-95
Author(s):  
Uswatun Hasanah
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Religious Understanding

This article strives for elaborating Thoifur Ali Wafa’s thoughts and his views on women’s rights in his Firdaws al-Na‘īm bi Tawḍīḥ Ma‘ānī Āyāt al-Qur’ān al-Karīm. His work discusses Qur’anic verses, which deals with women and their rights. Considering that Thoifur has been a Muslim scholar who born and live in Sumenep Madura whose people believe in superiority of men upon women, the issue is then undeniably interesting to discuss. It seems that Thoifur, through his work, attempts to reveal religious understanding which tends to be gender biased. He insists to obliterate patriarchal culture and discrimination against women as a result of irresponsibly fault social construction to the understanding of religious texts. Based on his interpretation of verse 21 surah al-Rūm, verse 232 surah al-Baqarah, verse 195 surah Āl ‘Imrān, verse 38 surah al-Mā’idah, verse 34 surah al-Nisā’, verse 187 surah al-Baqarah, verse 228 surah al-Baqarah, verse 19 surah al-Nisā’, verse 229 surah al-Baqarah, verse 36 surah al-Nisā’, verse 15 surah al-Aḥqāf, verse 71 surah al-Tawbah, verse 12 surah al-Mumtaḥanah, and verse 34 surah al-Nisā’, Thoifur argues that women possess a number of rights within both domestic and public spheres. Keywords:; ; ; .

scholarly journals PEMBEBASAN PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL BANĀT AL-RIYĀḌ KARYA RAJA’ ABD ALLĀH AL-ṢĀNI’

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
M. Faisol ◽  
Ahmad Kholil
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Woman Author ◽  
Free Women

In the midst of dominant patriarchal culture ini Saudi Arabia, Banāt al-Riyāḍ novel by Raja’ ‘Abd Allāh al-Ṣāni’ is present as an effort to liberate women from the dominant patriarchal confines. As woman author, Raja’ ‘Abd Allāh al-Ṣāni’ made criticism and resistance in her work as an effort to liberate women. Through women as writer approach, this paper aims to reveal efforts to fight for women’s rights and liberation from the dominance of tyrannical hegemonic masculinity in the Saudi Arabian setting. The results of the analysis show that female leaders emerged in the movement of awareness when their rights were taken. They made efforts to free themselves by suing the confines of tradition and patriarchal religious construction. Liberating women from the oppressive male domination by the leaders is the attempt to free women, both in the domestic and public shpheres. Novel Banāt al-Riyāḍ is an author’s strategy in its efforts to fight for the rights of Saudi Arabian women and to free them from patriarchal confines.

scholarly journals Transformative Leadership for Women's Rights (TLWR): Lessons and recommendations from Oxfam's experiences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ines Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Transformative Leadership ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Individual

The aim of promoting gender equality and women’s rights as integral parts of development efforts is enshrined in the key strategies and plans of many organizations. This is the case for the individual affiliates that comprise Oxfam International (OI), and the Oxfam confederation as a whole. This report sets out to assist Oxfam to better understand and learn from the Confederation’s work in this area to date. The purpose of the report is to provide an initial mapping of work on transformative leadership for women's rights (TLWR) in order to offer suggestions, impetus and a programmatic framework for the development of an ambitious global program on TLWR. It is intended to complement and drive Oxfam’s efforts to bring about the transformation of the pervasive gender inequality that limits women’s wellbeing, confidence and potential, reproduces negative masculinity traits, and contributes to the inequity dominant in contemporary societies.

Countries with women inequalities have higher stroke mortality

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 869-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Dae Kim ◽  
Yo Han Jung ◽  
Valeria Caso ◽  
Cheryl D Bushnell ◽  
Gustavo Saposnik
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
World Health ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Stroke Mortality ◽  
Inequality Index ◽  
Stroke Outcomes ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Mortality Ratio

Background Stroke outcomes can differ by women’s legal or socioeconomic status. Aim We investigated whether differences in women’s rights or gender inequalities were associated with stroke mortality at the country-level. Methods We used age-standardized stroke mortality data from 2008 obtained from the World Health Organization. We compared female-to-male stroke mortality ratio and stroke mortality rates in women and men between countries according to 50 indices of women’s rights from Women, Business and the Law 2016 and Gender Inequality Index from the Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Programme. We also compared stroke mortality rate and income at the country-level. Results In our study, 176 countries with data available on stroke mortality rate in 2008 and indices of women’s rights were included. There were 46 (26.1%) countries where stroke mortality in women was higher than stroke mortality in men. Among them, 29 (63%) countries were located in Sub-Saharan African region. After adjusting by country income level, higher female-to-male stroke mortality ratio was associated with 14 indices of women’s rights, including differences in getting a job or opening a bank account, existence of domestic violence legislation, and inequalities in ownership right to property. Moreover, there was a higher female-to-male stroke mortality ratio among countries with higher Gender Inequality Index (r = 0.397, p < 0.001). Gender Inequality Index was more likely to be associated with stroke mortality rate in women than that in men (p < 0.001). Conclusions Our study suggested that the gender inequality status is associated with women’s stroke outcomes.

The Nineteenth Amendment Today

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Paula A. Monopoli
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Equal Rights Amendment ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Women's Equality

Chapter 8 concludes that the Nineteenth Amendment can be revitalized today, to more fully ensure women’s equality. It reviews new legal scholarship that suggests direct applications of the Nineteenth Amendment to today’s voting rights challenges. And it describes how some scholars suggest that the Nineteenth should be read together with the Fourteenth Amendment, as a normative matter, to provide a more capacious understanding of the Fourteenth, as applied to women’s rights, beyond voting. Given persistent gender inequality, and the uncertain status of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the chapter concludes that it is worth revisiting the jurisprudential potential of the Nineteenth Amendment, at its centennial.

scholarly journals Death as a Way of Women’s Resistance: Feminist Reading of Snow and Women at Point Zero

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huda Khudhair Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Discrimination And Oppression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

Women’s life without oppression, suppression and discrimination is the claim of women’s rights. Women are subjected to discrimination or violence at various phases of life, by rules and cultures. Unfortunately, female discrimination and oppression are rooted in the cultures of male-dominated societies. Gender discrimination is the practice of denying or granting privilege or rights to someone according to her/his gender, and such practice is acceptable to both; in such societies with such practices and traditions, women’s mission for liberating themselves is seen to be impossible because they have to challenge longstanding customs and traditions of people. This study shed light on the practices of oppression, gender discrimination that women encounter from infancy to adulthood, from childhood to womanhood, as portrayed in Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and Nawal El Saadawi’s Women at Point Zero, as well as the various ways of resistance depending on the cultural differences. Their persistence trial to free themselves from oppression and male dominance. In Women at Point Zero, there is a link between the triple effect of patriarchy, religion, and class on women. This study examines how patriarchal culture, violence, oppression, and gender discrimination happen not only in a family; in contrast, the violence does not happen from men, husbands in families only, but again in wives, women’s resistance and reaction against them. In Snow, women many problems related to their religious norms. The women’s discrimination is because of using headscarves; Kadhife, the female character, is sketched as a woman who attempts to have her right to support and defend women’s rights in her place, Kars, and to retain wearing headscarves.

scholarly journals Fleksibilitas Hak Perempuan dalam Cerai Gugat di Pengadilan Agama Parepare

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Fikri Fikri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Religious Courts ◽  
Husband And Wife

This study aimed to know about the flexibility of women's rights in divorce at Parepare Religious Court and how the judge resolved divorce case. This study was conducted with qualitative research with a focus on case studies, with a juridical, socio-anthropological, philosophical and psychological approach. The results of this study shows; 1) Judge's decision in Case No.171/Pdt.G/2019/PA.Pare is flexible in deciding divorce case. The case of divorce is a reflection of equality and justice in women's rights to law enforcement in the Religious Courts. Divorced as well as eliminating patriarchal culture by placing women as second class; 2) The judge at Religious Court in Parepare can approve in a divorce case for several reasons as follows; disputes and quarrels occur between husband and wife, the husband persecutes and hurts his wife's body, the husband betrays his wife to another woman.

scholarly journals ISLAM DAN KEPEMIMPINAN PEREMPUAN DI RANAH POLITIK

EGALITA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilfi Nur Diana, M.Si
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Political Right

Women’s rights are mostly experiencing pressures and obstacles from all sides (groups) which are still influenced by patriarchal culture. In fact, Islam has devoted proportional rights to women such as political right, socio-ecomic rights, educational right as well as cultural right. However, their rights are sometimes  socially overlooked for the religious reasons. On the contrary, that phenomenon is generated from the interpretation which is influenced by the interpreter’s conditional and situational background. The most indisputable issue in recent situation is the illegibility of woman being a leader that she cannot be for any political positions. Therefore, it is necessary to do structural transformation and quality and  capacity development in the same time. It is also one of effort that we need more humanistic interpretation of the Qur’an toward women.

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