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Globalization, Religion and Gender

The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts

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  • © 2001

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  1. Jane H. Bayes
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  2. Nayereh Tohidi
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane H. Bayes, Nayereh Tohidi
    Pages 1-15

  3. Women Redefining Modernity and Religion in the Globalized Context

    • Nayereh Tohidi, Jane H. Bayes
    Pages 17-60

  4. United States Catholic Women: Feminist Theologies in Action

    • Susan Marie Maloney
    Pages 61-86

  5. Implementing the Beijing Commitments in Ireland

    • Yvonne Galligan, Nuala Ryan
    Pages 87-106

  6. Implementing Women’s Rights in Spain

    • Celia Valiente
    Pages 107-125

  7. The Politics of Implementing Women’s Rights in Catholic Countries of Latin America

    • Laura Guzmán Stein
    Pages 127-155

  8. The Politics of Implementing Women’s Rights in Turkey

    • AyÅŸe GüneÅŸ-Ayata
    Pages 157-175

  9. Women’s Strategies in Iran from the 1979 Revolution to 1999

    • Mehranguiz Kar
    Pages 177-201

  10. The Politics of Implementing Women’s Rights in Bangladesh

    • Najma Chowdhury
    Pages 203-230

  11. The Silent Ayesha: An Egyptian Narrative

    • Heba Raouf Ezzat
    Pages 231-257

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-280
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In the early 1970s accompanying the current wave of globalization, conservative nationalist religious movements began using religion to oppose non-democratic and often western oriented regimes. Reasserting patriarchal gender relations presumably authorized by religion has been central to these movements. At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women's health, and women's rights as human rights. In this book, scholars from eight different Muslim and Catholic communities analyze the political strategies that women are employing in these contexts ranging from acceptance of traditional doctrines to various forms of resistance, religious reinterpretation, innovation, and political action toward change and equal rights.

About the authors

JANE BAYES is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Northridge where she teaches in the areas of women and politics and political economy.

NAYEREH TOHIDI is Assistant Professor of Womens Studies at California State University, Northridge. She teaches in the area of sociology of gender and social change in Muslim societies.

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