Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women

Chapter 1 Fundamentalism

Chapter 2 Christian Fundamentalism: Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Human Rights

Chapter 3 What Is Your Tribe?: Women’s Struggles and the Construction of Muslimness

Chapter 4 The Personal Is Political: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women’s Empowerment

Chapter 5 Relativism, Culture, Religion, and Identity

Chapter 6 Cultural Relativism and International Law

Chapter 7 Gender Apartheid and the Discourse of Relativity of Rights in Muslim Societies

Chapter 8 Different but Free: Cultural Relativism and Women’s Rights as Human Rights

Chapter 9 Safeguarding Women’s Political Freedoms under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Face of Religious Fundamentalism

Chapter 10 Religious Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: What Do They Really Mean?

Chapter 11 Women’s Equal Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: An Important but Neglected Subject

Chapter 12 The Potential of International Law to Combat Discrimination against Girls in Education

Chapter 13 The Two Faces of Secularism and Women’s Rights in India

Chapter 14 Religion and Patriarchal Politics: The Israeli Experience

Chapter 15 Family Disputes Involving Muslim Women in Contemporary Europe: Immigrant Women Caught between Islamic Family Law and Women’s Rights

Chapter 16 Finding Our Feet, Standing Our Ground: Reproductive Health Activism in an Era of Rising Fundamentalism and Economic Globalization

Chapter 17 Roman Catholic Fundamentalism: What’s Sex (and Power) Got to Do with It?

Chapter 18 Reconciling the Opposites: Equal but Subordinate

Chapter 19 Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thai Sex Trade

Chapter 20 Women Educating Women in the Afghan Diaspora: Why and How

Chapter 21 Challenging Christian Fundamentalism: Organizing an Alternative to the Religious Right in Your State

Chapter 22 Gender-Based Asylum in the United States: A View from the Trenches

Chapter 23 Tales of Subversion: Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chapter 24 A Feminist Perspective on Jewish Fundamentalism

Chapter 25 Truth over Convention: Feminist Interpretations of Buddhism

Chapter 26 Religion and Women’s Rights: The Fundamentalist Face of Catholicism in Brazil

Chapter 27 Reclaiming the Religious Center from a Muslim Perspective: Theological Alternatives to Religious Fundamentalism