Bargaining for Women's Rights
Bargaining for Women's Rights Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In others, their agendas have been stymied. In some cases, Muslim…
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Bargaining for Women's Rights
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In others, their agendas have been stymied. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education.
Kang argues that reform is more likely to happen when the struggle arises from within. Yet missing from this discussion, until now, has been a systematic examination of how civil society groups mobilize to promote women's rights and how multiple components of the state negotiate such legislation.In Bargaining for Women's Rights, Alice J. Focusing on how a law on gender quotas and a United Nations treaty on ending discrimination against women passed in Niger while family law reform and an African Union protocol on women's rights did not, Kang shows how local women's associations are uniquely positioned