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Muslim women's quest for justice : gender, law and activism in India / Mengia Hong Tschalaer.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in law and societyDescription: xv, 257 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781107155770
  • 1107155770
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.5401/5 23
LOC classification:
  • KNS540 .T75 2017
Contents:
From legal binaries to configurations : Muslim women's rights activism in South Asia -- A multidimensional approach to Muslim women's activism : mapping the legal landscape in the city of Lucknow -- Destabilising gendered proprieties : Muslim women's visibility within the public space -- Vying for a gender just Islamic marriage contract : women's legal spaces -- Legal realities : doing gender justice from below -- Muslim women's quest for justice: theoretical implications and policy suggestions.
Summary: "Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral -University of Zurich, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From legal binaries to configurations : Muslim women's rights activism in South Asia -- A multidimensional approach to Muslim women's activism : mapping the legal landscape in the city of Lucknow -- Destabilising gendered proprieties : Muslim women's visibility within the public space -- Vying for a gender just Islamic marriage contract : women's legal spaces -- Legal realities : doing gender justice from below -- Muslim women's quest for justice: theoretical implications and policy suggestions.

"Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--

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