Muslim women's quest for justice : gender, law and activism in India / Mengia Hong Tschalaer.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: xv, 257 pages : 24 cmISBN:- 9781107155770
- 346.540 23 TSC
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral -University of Zurich, 2013).
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"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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