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VIA UNRISD - UN Research Institute
for Social Development
THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY - SPECIAL
ISSUE FORTHCOMING - Vol. 31, No. 6, 2010
THE UNHAPPY MARRIAGE OF RELIGION AND
POLITICS:
PROBLEMS & PITFALLS FOR GENDER
EQUALITY
Authors:
Shahra
Razavi, Anne
Jenichen
Contributor(s): Farida Shaheed, Yeşim Arat,
Homa Hoodfar, Shadi Sadr, Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Yaacov Yadgar, Charmaine
Pereira, Jibrin Ibrahim, Zoya Hasan, Rada Drezgić, Virginia Guzmán, Ute
Seibert, Silke Staab, Ana Amuchástegui, Guadalupe Cruz, Evelyn Aldaz, María
Consuelo Mejía, Jacqueline Heinen, Stéphane Portet, Elizabeth Bernstein, Janet
R. Jakobsen
A
Special Issue of the journal Third World Quarterly, guest-edited by UNRISD
researchers Shahra Razavi and Anne Jenichen, forthcoming in autumn 2010.
The special issue explores how religion as a political force shapes and
deflects the struggle for gender equality in contexts marked by different
histories of nation-building and challenges of ethnic diversity, different
state-society relations (from the more authoritarian to the more democratic),
and different relations between state power and religion (especially in the
domain of marriage, family and personal laws). It shows how ‘private’ issues,
related to the family, sexuality and reproduction, have become sites of intense
public contestation between conservative religious actors wishing to regulate
them based on some transcendent moral principle, and feminist and other human
rights advocates basing their claims on pluralist and time-and-context specific
solutions. Not only are claims of ‘divine truth’ justifying discriminatory
practices against women hard to challenge, but the struggle for gender equality
is further complicated by the manner in which it is closely tied up, and
inseparable from, struggles for social and economic justice, ethnic/racial
recognition, and national self-determination vis-à-vis imperial/global
domination.
Table of Contents:
An Introduction. The Unhappy Marriage of Religion and Politics: Problems and
Pitfalls for Gender Equality
Shahra Razavi and Anne Jenichen
Contested Identities: Gendered Politics, Gendered Religion in Pakistan
Farida Shaheed
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: Implications of a
Democratic Paradox?
Yeşim Arat
Islamic Politics and Women’s Quest for Gender Equality in Iran
Homa Hoodfar and Shadi Sadr
Between Universal Feminism and Particular Nationalism: Politics, Religion and
Gender (In)equality in Israel
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Yaacov Yadgar
On the Bodies of Women: The Common Ground Between Islam and Christianity in
Nigeria
Charmaine Pereira and Jibrin Ibrahim
Gender, Religion and Democratic Politics in India
Zoya Hasan
Religion, Politics and Gender in the Context of Nation-state Formation: The
Case of Serbia
Rada Drezgić
Democracy in the Country but Not in the Home? Religion, Politics and Women’s
Rights in Chile
Virginia Guzmán, Ute Seibert and Silke Staab
Politics, Religion and Gender Equality in Contemporary Mexico: Women’s
Sexuality and Reproductive Rights in a Contested Secular State
Ana Amuchástegui, Guadalupe Cruz, Evelyn Aldaz and María Consuelo Mejía
Reproductive Rights in Poland: When Politicians Fear the Wrath of the Church
Jacqueline Heinen and Stéphane Portet
Sex, Secularism, and Religious Influence in the US Politics
Elizabeth Bernstein and Janet R. Jakobsen
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Publication and ordering detailsPub. Date: 1 Nov
2010
Pub. Place: London
Price: Please contact the Publisher for price
From: Taylor
and Francis