Policy Analysis beyond Personal Law: Muslim Women's Rights in India

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Harel-Shalev
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Personal Law

Polygamy, Purdah and Political Representation: Engendering citizenship in 1950s Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 1421-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARAH ANSARI
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
English Language ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Polygamous Marriage ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Personal Law

AbstractDebates on Islam, citizenship and women's rights have been closely interconnected in Pakistan, from the time of the state's creation in 1947 through to the present day. This article explores the extent to which during the 1950s campaigns to reform Muslim personal law (which received a boost thanks to the outcry against 1955 polygamous marriage of the then Prime Minister, Muhammad Ali Bogra) were linked with wider lobbying by female activists to secure for women their rights as Pakistani citizens alongside men. Through a close examination of the discussions that were conducted on the pages of English-language newspapers, such as Dawn and the Pakistan Times, it highlights in particular what female contributors thought about issues that were affecting the lives of women in Pakistan during its early, and often challenging, nation-building years.

Aggressive Hindu Nationalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 335-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Agnes
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Community Rights ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Personal Law

This chapter scrutinizes the triple talaq issue in the context of an aggressive Hindu nationalism in India to provide the intersectional and historical context for the overemphasis on triple talaq and the lack of reporting on the progress in Muslim women’s rights, and to challenge popular misconceptions surrounding Muslim personal law. Why is there an overemphasis on triple talaq today to the exclusion of all other gender concerns? Agnes highlights how the discourse around triple talaq has constrained the discussion of abandoned women within the confines of Muslim communities, even while separated and abandoned Hindu women number 2 million out of 2.3 million in India. Through reflecting on the triple talaq issue, she seeks to find effective strategies to secure dignity and economic rights for women in a context where women’s rights are posed as oppositional to (Muslim) community rights.

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