Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada
Department
Gender and Women's Studies
Document Type
Book
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Description
In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics. Her representation is often articulated within a rights discourse owing much to liberal-secular sensibilities notions of freedom, equality, rational thinking, individualism, and modernization. Muslim Women's Rights explores how these liberal-secular sensibilities inform, shape, and foreclose public discussion on questions of Islam and gender. The book draws on postcolonial, antiracist, and transnational feminist studies in order to analyze public and legal debates surrounding proposed shari'ah tribunals in Canada. It examines the cultural and epistemological suppositions underlying common assumptions about Islamic laws; explores how these assumptions are informed by the Western progress narrative and women's rights debates; and asks what forms of politics these enable and foreclose. The book assesses the influence of secularism on the ontology, epistemology, and ethics afforded to Islam in the West, and begins to trace possibilities by which Islamic family law might be productively addressed on its own terms. Muslim Women's Rights is a significant contribution to the fields of both Islam and gender and the critical study of secularism.
Call number in WMU's library
HQ1170 .R83 2019
ISBN
9781138741225
Publication Date
2019
Disciplines
Women's Studies
Citation for published book
Ruby, Tabassum Fahim. Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-secular Sensibilities in Canada. Global Gender (Series). NY: Routledge, 2019.
Recommended Citation
Ruby, Tabassum Fahim, "Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada" (2019). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 788.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/788