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This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and
challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard
to family practices such as marriage, divorce, and parenting.
Critically re-conceptualizing 'wellbeing' and unpacking its
multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families, it
investigates how migrants make sense of and draw on different
norms, laws, and regimes of knowledge as they navigate different
aspects of family relations and life in a transnational social
space. With attention to issues such as registration of marriage,
civil versus religious marriage, spousal roles and rights,
polygamy, parenting, child wellbeing, and everyday security, the
authors offer national and comparative case studies of Muslim
families from different parts of the world, covering different
family bonds and relations, within both extended and nuclear
families. Based on empirical research in the Nordic region and
further afield, this volume affords a more complete understanding
of the practices of transnational migrant families, as well as the
processes through which family relations and rights are negotiated
between family members and with state institutions and laws, whilst
contributing to the growing literature on migrant wellbeing. As
such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social policy
with interests in migration and transnational communities,
wellbeing, and the family.
This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and
challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard
to family practices such as marriage, divorce, and parenting.
Critically re-conceptualizing 'wellbeing' and unpacking its
multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families, it
investigates how migrants make sense of and draw on different
norms, laws, and regimes of knowledge as they navigate different
aspects of family relations and life in a transnational social
space. With attention to issues such as registration of marriage,
civil versus religious marriage, spousal roles and rights,
polygamy, parenting, child wellbeing, and everyday security, the
authors offer national and comparative case studies of Muslim
families from different parts of the world, covering different
family bonds and relations, within both extended and nuclear
families. Based on empirical research in the Nordic region and
further afield, this volume affords a more complete understanding
of the practices of transnational migrant families, as well as the
processes through which family relations and rights are negotiated
between family members and with state institutions and laws, whilst
contributing to the growing literature on migrant wellbeing. As
such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social policy
with interests in migration and transnational communities,
wellbeing, and the family.
In Egypt's modern history, reform of personal status laws has often
formed an integral part of political, cultural, and religious
contestations among different factions of society. From the
beginning of the twenty-first century, two significant reforms were
introduced in Egyptian personal status laws: women's right to
petition for no-fault judicial divorce law (khul') and the new
mediation-based family courts.Legal Reform and Gender Justice
examines the interplay between legal reform and gender norms and
practices. It examines the processes of advocating for, and
contesting the khul' and new family courts laws, shedding light on
the agendas and strategies of the various actors involved. It also
examines the ways in which women and men have made use of these
legal reforms; how judges and other court personnel have
interpreted and implemented them; and how the reforms may have
impacted women and men's understandings, expectations, and
strategies when navigating marriage and spousal roles.Drawing on an
extensive four-year field study, Al-Sharmani highlights the
complexities and mixed impacts of legal reform, not only as a
mechanism of claiming gender rights but also as a system of
meanings that shape, destabilize, or transform gender norms and
practices.
The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic
jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This
worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim
contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. In
this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian
marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition.
Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice
in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to
marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur’an,
Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and
contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize
how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being
and the core Qur’anic principles of ‘adl (justice) and ihsan
(goodness and beauty).
Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as
suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination,
treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male
authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic
law, and since the late 19th century there has been a mass of
literature tackling this issue. Recently, exciting new feminist
research has been challenging gender discrimination and male
authority from within Islamic legal tradition: this book presents
some important results from that research. The contributors all
engage critically with two central juristic concepts; rooted in the
Qur'an, they lie at the basis of this discrimination. One refers to
a husband's authority over his wife, his financial responsibility
toward her, and his superior status and rights. The other is male
family members' right and duty of guardianship over female members
(e.g., fathers over daughters when entering into marriage
contracts) and the privileging of fathers over mothers in
guardianship rights over their children. The contributors, brought
together by the Musawah global movement for equality and justice in
the Muslim family, include Omaima Abou-Bakr, Asma Lamrabet, Ayesha
Chaudhry, Sa'diyya Shaikh, Lynn Welchman, Marwa Sharefeldin, Lena
Larsen and Amina Wadud.
Changing Narratives of Sexuality engages with women's sexuality
exploring marginal as well as dominant stories in which sexuality
may figure overtly or covertly as the subject. This impressive
collection brings together a broad range of arenas in which
sexuality is embedded. From storytelling to women's engagement
within institutions in the state, the narratives of unmarried women
and stories of religious influence on women's subjectivities and
sexualities, stories on television and in print media. Sexuality is
explored in a wide range of national contexts in the global South -
Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestine, South Africa.
Exploring these different narratives of sexuality, told by and
about women, the book examines tensions and contradictions in the
constructions of gender, sexuality, and women's empowerment, and
analyses what scope exists for women to subvert repressive norms
and conceptions of heterosexuality, in varying disciplinary and
geopolitical contexts.
This ground-breaking collection investigates the relationship
between feminist activism and legal reform as a pathway to gender
justice and social change. Since the advent of feminist movements
legal reform has been a popular and yet contentious vehicle for
seeking women's rights and empowerment. This important book looks
at comparative insights drawn from field-based research on the
processes, the challenges, and the outcomes of legal reform and
feminist activism. Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal
Reform brings together cases from Middle East, Latin America, and
Asia of the successes and failures of reform efforts concerning the
promulgation and implementation of new family laws and domestic
violence codes.
This ground-breaking collection investigates the relationship
between feminist activism and legal reform as a pathway to gender
justice and social change.Since the advent of feminist movements in
the Global South and North, legal reform has been a popular and yet
contentious vehicle of seeking women's rights and empowerment.
Accordingly, law has been an important focus of feminist
scholarship. This important book will contribute to such
scholarship, with comparative insights drawn from field-based
research on the processes, the challenges, and the outcomes of
legal reform and feminist activism from a number of countries in
different regions of the world. Feminist Activism, Women's Rights
and Legal Reform brings together cases from Middle East, Latin
America and Asia of the successes and failures of reform efforts
concerning the promulgation and implementation of new family laws
and domestic violence codes.
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