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Synopsis
Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women’s rights is often stymied by an "all or nothing" approach: fundamentalists rely on a claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists have dismissed religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women’s rights. This ignores the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women, Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism.
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About the Author
COURTNEY W. HOWLAND is Visiting Scholar in Residence at the International Women's Human Rights Center at Georgetown University Law Center.
Review
Cultural relativism that attempts to deny Western-originated concepts of universal human rights is especially well treated. Choice
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0333801407
- ISBN 13 9780333801406
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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