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Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India »
Authors: Vrinda Narain
ISBN-13: 9780802048691, ISBN-10: 0802048692
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Vrinda Narain
Vrinda Narain is a Boulton Fellow in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, and a research associate in the Department of Afroasiatic Studies at the University of the Free State in South Africa.
Book Synopsis
Combines feminist analysis, post-colonial and critical race theory with legal analysis to critically assess issues of gender equality, minority rights and the accommodation of difference
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| 1 | Contextualizing Muslim Personal Law | 8 |
| 2 | Muslim Personal Law and the Constitutional Framework | 36 |
| 3 | Naming the Issues | 75 |
| 4 | Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender and Community: The Role of the State | 106 |
| Notes | 141 | |
| References | 185 | |
| Cases Cited | 195 | |
| Index | 197 |
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