Muslim women, family law and equal citizenship in India
Whereas the Constitution of India guarantees equality and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion and gender to all citizens, Muslim women’s family relations are regulated by religious personal law which denies them equality. While attention is paid to their group and religious identity...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2007, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 498-517 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Whereas the Constitution of India guarantees equality and freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion and gender to all citizens, Muslim women’s family relations are regulated by religious personal law which denies them equality. While attention is paid to their group and religious identity, this is invariably at the expense of their interests as women. This convergence of religious identity with the regulation of gender roles has had profound implications for the legal status of Muslim women. This paper examines the way in which, in postcolonial India, Muslim women’s location at the intersection of gender, religion and the law impacts the recognition of their rights as equal citizens of the nation., |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC101051 |