Muslim Women's Quest for Justice : Gender, Law and Activism in India.
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| Author / Creator: | Hong Tschalaer, Mengia. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Cambridge studies in law and society. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576155 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Muslim Women's Quest for Justice; Series Editors; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: From Legal Binaries to Configurations: Muslim Women's Rights Activism in South Asia; Muslim Women's Rights in Colonial India; 'Modernising' the Muslim Family: The Debate on a Uniform Civil Code; Legal Longings: Muslim Women's Rights Activism; Configurations of Muslim Women's Rights: Theoretical Framework; Beyond the State-Society Divide: Academic Debates in South Asia; Organisation of the Book; Endnotes.
- Chapter 2: A Multidimensional Approach to Muslim Women's Activism: Mapping the Legal Landscape in the City of LucknowFragmented Muslim Communities; Lucknow's Multi Sited Legal Landscape: Some Thoughts on Methodology; Legal Hegemonies: The Family Court and the System of Darul Qazas; The Family Court; The AIMPLB and its system of darul qazas; Functioning and working of darul qazas; The Emergence of Muslim Women's Organisations and New Personal Law Boards; Bazme Khawateen (Women's Club); The All India Muslim Personal Law Board and the AISPLB; The All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board.
- Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA)The Multidimensional Complexity of the Legal Field; Endnotes; Chapter 3: Destabilising Gendered Proprieties: Muslim Women's Visibility within the Public Space; Muslim Women's Activism in Lucknow: Manufacturing Respectability within the Public Space; Modernising the Islamic dress; The Islamic dress as a form of political adjustment; Delimiting Islam: Unveiling piety; Islamic bodies and forms of self-representation; Muslim Women's Rights Activists: Public Visibility and the Media; Guiding prayers for women in the public women's (Zenana) Park.
- Construction of a women's mosqueA female qazi and an unconventional wedding; Women's Spaces within the Patriarchal Legal Landscape; Endnotes; Chapter 4: Vying for a Gender Just Islamic Marriage Contract: Women's Legal Spaces; The Islamic Marriage Contract (Nikahnama); Gender Just Model-Nikahnama; Competing Model-Nikahnamas; A Shift toward a Rhetoric of Rights within the Dominant Islamic Discourse; Muslim women's activists' interpretations of the Muslim marriage contract; The AIMWPLB's version of the Islamic marriage contract; A Secular Reading of the Islamic Marriage by the BMMA.
- Transforming Normative Ideas of the Islamic Marriage and the FamilyEndnotes; Chapter 5: Legal Realities: Doing Gender Justice from Below; Rights and Subaltern Legal Subjectivities; Constructing Women's Legal Subjectivity within the Family Court and the Darul Qaza; Doing justice in the Lucknow Family Court; Adjudicating marriage in the Darul Qaza; The marital dispute from the wife's perspective; The marital dispute from the husband's perspective; The decision; Female Sites of Justice: The Offices of Muslim Women's Rights Activists; The office of Bazme Khawateen; The office of the AIMWPLB.