scholarly journals Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei’s Contribution to the Discourse of Women’s Rights

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
English Language ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Independent Basis ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Blood Money ◽  
Over Time

Ayatollah Yusef Sanei was a prominent contemporary Shia scholar whose particular methodological approach led him to issue some of the most progressive Shia fatwas on the subject of women’s rights. However, the ideas he expressed in the last decades of his life have scarcely been addressed in the English language scholarship. This article explores Sanei’s broader jurisprudential approach and how he applied it to analyzing and often challenging traditional Shia rulings related to gender issues. The article first differentiates Sanei’s approach towards jurisprudence from established methodologies, particularly in relation to his consideration of the Sunna as secondary to the Qurʾān, his rejection of the practice of using consensus as an independent basis of legal rulings, his idea that Sharia rulings may change over time, and his strong emphasis on the Qurʾān’s messages of justice and human dignity. The article illuminates how this combination led Sanei to challenge traditional ideas about men’s authority over women, a fixed socio-political role for women, and men’s superiority in the areas of divorce rights, testimony and worth in blood money (dīya), while concurring with earlier scholars on the unequal division of inheritance. Notwithstanding this latter exception, the article demonstrates that Sanei drew upon jurisprudential approaches in arguing in favor of equality between men and women in many areas.

The Fragmentation of Gender in Post-Invasion Iraq

2017 ◽  
pp. 426-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Ali
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Iraqi Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter explores the evolution of gender and women’s rights struggles in Iraq since the establishment of the Personal Status Code in 1959 and shed light on the ethnosectarian fragmentation of women’s legal rights in post-invasion Iraq. The chapter argues that in order to explore women’s rights and conditions of lives in Iraq it is essential to explore the evolution of women’s rights and gender issues historically and through a complex lens of analysis rather than applying a predefined argument involving an undifferentiated “Islam” or age-old gender-based violence. It seeks to show that gender issues have been entangled with issues of nationhood, religion, and with the nature of the political regime since the very foundation of the Iraqi Republic in 1958. First, the chapter examines the debates and mobilizations around women’s legal rights in Iraq. Secondly, it highlights the development of political, economic, and military violence since the 1980s and its impact on gender norms and relations. Finally, it analyzes the specific context of ethnosectarian fragmentation in which Iraqi women have lived and mobilized since 2003.

Narratives of Tensions and Pressures

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-124
Author(s):  
Laura J. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Prevention Of Violence ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Over Time

The WPS agenda is usually described in terms of four “pillars” of activity: the participation of women in peace and security governance; the prevention of violence and conflict; the protection of women’s rights and bodies; and gender-sensitive relief and recovery programming. Over time, however, the emphasis given to each of these pillars has varied, and different actors have supported different initiatives under each pillar, with different political effects. The story of tension evident in the data collected or co-produced is primarily articulated in this chapter in terms of imbalance across the various pillars (which in itself is interesting, as it presupposes the virtue or desirability of balance). Further, tensions and pressure points are politically and strategically deployed as rationales for (limited) engagement across the agenda as a whole by certain actors.

“Drawing the Line of Equality”: Hannah Mather Crocker on Women's Rights

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
EILEEN HUNT BOTTING ◽  
SARAH L. HOUSER
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Sex Equality ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Political Radicalism

Hannah Mather Crocker was the leading American political theorist between 1800 and 1820 to engage the controversial question of sex equality. In the wake of the postrevolutionary backlash against political radicalism, she became a subtle rhetorician of women's rights. She accepted how her cultural context placed limits on the realization of women's rights, yet she did not analytically conflate these temporal limits with women's capacities to contribute to their polity. She sought to normatively defend and gently extend American women's ongoing informal political participation in the postrevolutionary era and challenged the separate spheres discourse that aimed to restrict it. Through the first comprehensive study of Crocker'soeuvre, this article provides new insight into the political role and rhetorical style of women's rights discourse and women's activism in the early republic and uncovers Crocker's philosophical legacies for scholars who seek to reconcile the standpoints of equality and difference feminism.

scholarly journals The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-117
Author(s):  
Abbas Barzegar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Anthropology ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Post Colonialism

Firmly situated in the field of legal anthropology, Arzoo Osanloo’s ThePolitics of Women’s Rights in Iran is an ethnographic treatment of women’srights discourse in contemporary Iran. It is concerned with unraveling theassumed paradoxes involved in administering a republican theocracy thatattempts to incorporate both divinely inspired legal injunctions and representativeforms of governance.Whereas many conversations concerning human rights and Islam aredrowned in contention, normativity, and exegetical speculation, Osanloo’scontribution steadily manages to remain above the fray. This is done by placingthe discourse of women’s rights within the cultural context of globalizationand post-colonialism and yet still identifying its local, embodiedpractice within the shifting political dynamics of post-revolutionary Iran. Tothis end, through exploring the lives of upper-middle class women in Tehranand their encounters with the emerging Islamo-republican state, the authorexplores the “conditions [that] have allowed for the discussion of rights tomaterialize in a language that was unacceptable just after the revolution…”(p. 7), while paying close attention to the ways in which contemporary Iranrepresents a vernacular modernity expressed through “a hybrid discoursethat locates a distinctive form of modernity at the juncture of Islamic revivalismand Western political and legal institutions” (p. 8).Her theoretical and methodological approach, which incorporates elementsof post-colonialism and post-modernism, is presented in a shortintroudction. Guiding concepts such as “rights as discursive practice,” “dialogicalsites,” and “subjectivization” thus readily inform her mobilizationand treatment of the data. Thankfully, her concern for methodological precisiondoes not obscure or consume the narrative form through which she putsforth her thesis in the remainder of the text ...

scholarly journals FEATURES OF THE USE OF METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING THE SUBJECT OF LITERATURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 324-329
Author(s):  
N. Baltabayeva ◽  
◽  
A. Yerkinbekova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Study And Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Selection Of

In this article, there is a need for a new study and teaching of modern Kazakh literature in the science of Kazakh literature. We know that the teaching of Kazakh literature is analyzed and studied in a new way, as the task is to examine it in detail. However, over time, each area of education has not yet been fully studied from the point of view of systematic scientific and methodological training. The relevance of the research lies in the artistic features of Kazakh literature, with a broad focus on current social problems and the topics covered in it, the selection of information, the formation of one's own scientific and methodological approach, effective methods of technology. Systematization, comprehensive analysis of modern effective technologies and methods of teaching Kazakh literature. The goal is to determine the consistency of teaching technologies, the specifics of teaching, and methodological relevance.

Ḥaḍāna Practices in Tunisia: Between Women’s Rights and the Best Interest of the Child, 1956–2019

Hawwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 194-225
Author(s):  
Maaike Voorhoeve
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Child Custody ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Rights And Interests ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This article examines how Tunisian judges since independence deal with childcare cases upon divorce. As a legal ethnographic study of ḥaḍāna (child custody) in contemporary Tunisia, this study aims to contribute to the existing literature on judicial practice in Muslim contexts. The article aims to reveal these judges’ understandings of child custody, of women’s and men’s roles in childcare, and of the rights and interests of children and how this understanding developed over time.

Celebrating Women’s Day in Baghdad, the City of Men

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 283-289
Author(s):  
Zahra Ali
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City ◽  
Political Scene

Women’s rights have been central to the post-invasion Iraqi political scene, which is dominated by conservative and sectarian Islamist parties who advance their own gender rhetoric of women as bearers of the “New Iraq.” This chapter presents a short ethnographic account of the 2012 Women’s Day celebration in Baghdad, held by a longstanding leftist women’s rights organization, the Iraqi Women’s League, which re-formed in 2003 after being banned by the Ba‘th regime for two decades. By providing this brief account, Zahra Ali seeks to highlight the context and political significance of the mobilizations around women and gender issues in post-invasion Iraq.

Twenty Years of Triumph, Trial and Tribulation: Reflections on the Mechanism of the African Commission’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Kennedy Kariseb
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Special Rapporteur ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
African Commission

Abstract On the occasion of its 25th Ordinary Session held in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 26 April to 5 May 1999, the African Commission adopted resolution ACHPR/res.38 (XXV) 99 on the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (SRRWA), retrospectively with the appointment taking effect from 31 October 1998. This means that the mechanism of the SRRWA is roughly making twenty years since its initial inception. Coming of age and time, the twenty years of existence of the mechanism of the SRRWA makes it not only one of the oldest (and perhaps most successful) mechanisms of the African Commission; but one that has been the subject of tremendous triumph, trial and tribulation. Over the past two decades, the mechanism has been a product of both progression and regression. By and large the mechanism of the SRRWA has played an appreciable role in the advancement of women’s rights on the African continent. This article aims at taking stock of the achievements and failures of the 20 years of the work of the SRRWA. Although taking pride in the achievements of the mechanism, this article argues for incremental reforms within the mechanism, including the refining of the terms of reference of the mandate; the need for closer cooperation with global and regional systems mechanisms, women at grassroots including women’s rights movements, and mutual support from civil society organisations.

Polygamy, Purdah and Political Representation: Engendering citizenship in 1950s Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1421-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH ANSARI
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
English Language ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Polygamous Marriage ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Personal Law

AbstractDebates on Islam, citizenship and women's rights have been closely interconnected in Pakistan, from the time of the state's creation in 1947 through to the present day. This article explores the extent to which during the 1950s campaigns to reform Muslim personal law (which received a boost thanks to the outcry against 1955 polygamous marriage of the then Prime Minister, Muhammad Ali Bogra) were linked with wider lobbying by female activists to secure for women their rights as Pakistani citizens alongside men. Through a close examination of the discussions that were conducted on the pages of English-language newspapers, such as Dawn and the Pakistan Times, it highlights in particular what female contributors thought about issues that were affecting the lives of women in Pakistan during its early, and often challenging, nation-building years.

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