Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law
Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within…
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Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law
Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. More specifically, it shows how the very conditions that make minority and indigenous women instrumental to the preservation of their culture may condemn them to a position of subalternity. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites of contestation for different groups that use them to assert their agency in society.
In response, and engaging the notion and meaning of Islamic feminism, the book proposes that feminism should be
International Human Rights Law
International Human Rights Law