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A Study of the Islamic Feminists' Perception of Good Governance [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2019 The present article first examines the views of Islamic feminists such as Mernissi, Ahmad and Al-Hibri on good governance, and then examines their ideas from the perspective of the official Islam.
Amir mohammad Haji yousefi +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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The Rise of Islamic Feminism in Kuwait
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2010 The paper examines the emergence of Islamic Feminism in Kuwait, based on the writings and personal accounts of leading Islamist women activists. It begins with an analysis of the socio-political factors that led to the creation of Islamic groups in the ...
Haya al-Mughni
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Arab feminism and the struggle for women’s rights
Feminismo/s, 2015 This article analyses the main historical and ideological features which have characterized Arab feminism since its origins in the second half of XIX century until nowadays.
Nieves Paradela
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Feminismo/s, 2015 This article describes the training program for college students to become murchidat, female religious guides. The Moroccan state has developed and codified this new category since 2004, showing a traditional transmission of Islam by female and shaking ...
Mariví Pérez Mateo
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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The Headscarf Controversy:A Response to Jill Marshall [PDF]
, 2008 This paper argues that Article 8 of the ECHR, as applied to the protection of a person’s right to wear a headscarf, is an inappropriate locus for thrashing out arguments about the right to protection of religious freedom, and that Article 9 allows for a ...
Amy Kaufman +13 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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There is nothing honourable about honour killings: gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism [PDF]
, 2007 'Honour killings' are extreme acts of domestic violence culminating in the murder of a woman by her family or community. However only in relation to religious and ethnic communities is the concept of 'honour' invoked as motivation for domestic violence ...
Meetoo, Veena, Mirza, Heidi
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