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Author: Mulki al-Sharmani Publisher: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 1617977837 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 285
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In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations among different factions of society. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were introduced in Egyptian personal status laws: women's right to petition for no-fault judicial divorce law (khul') and the new mediation-based family courts. Legal Reform and Gender Justice examines the interplay between legal reform and gender norms and practices. It examines the processes of advocating for, and contesting the khul' and new family courts laws, shedding light on the agendas and strategies of the various actors involved. It also examines the ways in which women and men have made use of these legal reforms; how judges and other court personnel have interpreted and implemented them; and how the reforms may have impacted women and men's understandings, expectations, and strategies when navigating marriage and spousal roles. Drawing on an extensive four-year field study, Al-Sharmani highlights the complexities and mixed impacts of legal reform, not only as a mechanism of claiming gender rights but also as a system of meanings that shape, destabilize, or transform gender norms and practices.
Author: Mulki al-Sharmani Publisher: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 1617977837 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 285
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In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious contestations among different factions of society. From the beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were introduced in Egyptian personal status laws: women's right to petition for no-fault judicial divorce law (khul') and the new mediation-based family courts. Legal Reform and Gender Justice examines the interplay between legal reform and gender norms and practices. It examines the processes of advocating for, and contesting the khul' and new family courts laws, shedding light on the agendas and strategies of the various actors involved. It also examines the ways in which women and men have made use of these legal reforms; how judges and other court personnel have interpreted and implemented them; and how the reforms may have impacted women and men's understandings, expectations, and strategies when navigating marriage and spousal roles. Drawing on an extensive four-year field study, Al-Sharmani highlights the complexities and mixed impacts of legal reform, not only as a mechanism of claiming gender rights but also as a system of meanings that shape, destabilize, or transform gender norms and practices.
Author: Heba Moahmed El Azzazy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Egypt Languages : en Pages : 168
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Abstract: Living in an era of a global gender agenda in which concepts and frameworks travel across the world presents many challenges when it comes to discussions of women's rights in Egypt. In the decade preceding the January 25, 2011 revolution, significant progress was made regarding Egyptian women's legal rights, especially in the domain of family law reform. Hence expectations were high that Egyptian women's rights would advance following the Jan 25, 2011 revolution. Unfortunately with the transformations of the political landscape suggested otherwise. During the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood between 2011 to June 2013, several women's rights legislations were revisited and several attempts and concrete steps were taken to repeal certain family laws that had been regarded as gains for Egyptian women. This thesis explores the different strategies, tactics and engagement that women,s rights advocates adopted during this period. While the global conception of gender equality was one of the main frameworks adopted in Egypt to promote women's rights prior to the revolution, in this thesis, I explore the tensions between women's rights legal activists and the Muslim Brotherhood regarding conceptions of gender equality and gender justice.
Author: Jasmine Moussa Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004203109 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 320
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The debate surrounding women’s family rights under Sharī’a-derived law has long been held captive to the competing fundamentalisms of universalism and cultural relativism. These two conflicting perspectives fail to promote practical tools through which such laws can be reformed, without prejudice to their religious nature. This book examines the development of Egypt’s Sharī’a-derived family law, and its compatibility with international obligations to eliminate discrimination against women. It highlights the interplay between domestic reform processes, grounded in the tools of takhayyur, talfiq and ijtihad, and international institutions and mechanisms. In attempting to reconcile these two seemingly dissonant value systems, this book underscores the shortcomings of Egypt’s legislation, proposes particular reforms, while simultaneously presenting alternatives to insular interpretations of international women’s rights law.
Author: Mariz Tadros Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815653751 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 360
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On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country’s history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens and likewise as women demanding social change and the right to gender equality. The size and impact of that uprising underscore the vital importance of women activists to what became known as the Arab Spring. In Resistance, Revolt, and Gender Justice in Egypt, Tadros charts the arc of the Egyptian women’s movement, capturing the changing dynamics of gender activism over the course of two decades. She explores the interface between feminist movements, Islamist forces, and three regime ruptures in the battle over women’s status in Egyptian society and politics. Parsing the factors that contribute to the success and failure of activist movements, Tadros provides valuable insight on sustaining social change and a vitally important perspective on women’s evolving status in a contemporary authoritarian context.
Author: Lena Larsen Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857721690 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generally accepted conceptions of justice. In Islam, as in other religious traditions, the idea of equality between men and women was neither central to notions of justice nor part of the juristic landscape, and Muslim jurists did not begin to address it until the twentieth century. The personal status of Muslim men, women and children continues to be defined by understandings of Islamic law codified and adapted by modern nation-states that assume authority to be the natural prerogative of men, that disadvantage women and that are prone to abuse. This volume argues that effective and sustainable reform of these laws and practices requires engagement with their religious rationales from within the tradition. Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law offers a groundbreaking analysis of family law, based on fieldwork in family courts, and illuminated by insights from distinguished clerics and scholars of Islam from Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia, as well as by the experience of human rights and women s rights activists. It explores how male authority is sustained through law and court practice in different contexts, the consequences for women and the family, and the demands made by Muslim women s groups. The book argues for women's full equality before the law by re-examining the jurisprudential and theological arguments for male guardianship (qiwama, wilaya) in Islamic legal tradition. Using contemporary examples from various contexts, from Morocco to Malaysia, this volume presents an informative and vital analysis of these societies and gender relations within them. It unpicks the complex and often contradictory attitudes towards Muslim family law, and the ways in which justice and ethics are conceived in the Islamic tradition. The book offers a new framework for rethinking old formulations so as to reflect contemporary realities and understandings of justice, ethics and gender rights. "
Author: Leila Al-Atraqchi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Feminism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Since the early 20 th Century, Egyptian modernists and feminists have been pushing for reform of the Personal Status Law. The Egyptian Women's Movements have undergone several changes in perspectives and strategies in meeting their most prominent demand, reform of the Personal Status Law. Yet, despite the multitude of strategies adopted for bringing about the reform, the women's movements have never been wholly successful. However, a glimmer of hope began to appear in the 1990s with the re-emergence and spread of the Islamist women's movement in Egypt. Working from within the framework of Islam and the indigenous culture, the women involved have been more successful in engaging the establishment and more conservative elements of society in a legitimate dialogue in the public sphere on the need to reform the Personal Status Law in an attempt to grant more rights for women. Furthermore, it appears that they have succeeded in engaging the often neglected, albeit instrumental, informal public sphere in the debates on the necessity of Personal Status Law reform. After introducing an overview of a century of shifting strategies in women's demand for Personal Status Law reform, this thesis will examine how Islamist, as well as secular, women's groups and individual activists (feminists) have been using alternative channels and the framework of Islam to mobilize toward legal reform. In the process, I will be examining the most recent Personal Status Law reform of 2000 and its significance as a partial outcome of the changing articulation of women's rights by Islamist women activists.
Author: Doris H. Gray Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110841950X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
Author: Mala Htun Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110828096X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 370
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When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-paid parental leave and child care follow a logic of class politics, in which the strength of Left parties and overall economic conditions are more salient. The book reveals the multiple and complex pathways to gender justice, illuminating the opportunities and obstacles to social change for policymakers, advocates, and others seeking to advance women's rights.
Author: Leila Hanafi Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arab countries Languages : en Pages : 90
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"This study maps the current state of gender justice in the Arab region, documenting barriers as well as opportunities ... the study provides insight into the state of gender justice through a legal or de jure perspective, as well as a de facto perspective. It achieves this by reviewing significant legislative, political and social changes that have taken place between 2004 and 2016."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Mulki al-Sharmani
Author: Mulki al-Sharmani
Author: Heba Moahmed El Azzazy
Author: Mulki Al-Sharmani
Author: Jasmine Moussa
Author: Mariz Tadros
Author: Lena Larsen
Author: Leila Al-Atraqchi
Author: Doris H. Gray
Author: Mala Htun
Author: Leila Hanafi