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Global Contestations of Gender Rights

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Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, this volume addresses the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political conte...
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  • 27 March 2022
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Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.
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Pages: 354
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: Bielefeld University Press
Series: BiUP General
Publication Date: 27 March 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660692
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General
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Alexandra Scheele is university lecturer for economic sociology and the sociology of work at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of Sociology. She is member of the editorial board of the Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft.
Julia Roth is a professor of American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld, where she is also PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender«. Her research interests are gender approaches, intersectionality theorizing, gender and citizenship, right-wing populism and gender, migrant knowledges and new feminist movements.
Heidemarie Winkel is a professor of sociology at Universität Bielefeld and senior research associate at the VHI/St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University (UK). She is a member of the editorial board of the ZRGP (Journal for Religion, Society and Politics) and is PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender« at Universität Bielefeld.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Global Contestations of Gender Rights 9
Analytical Framing 21
Gendering Global Entanglements 45
Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights 63
Gender Equality Policy in Practice in the Era of Global Contestation 83
Worldwide Anti-Gender Mobilization 99
Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law 115
Decolonizing Universalism? 135
Self, Relation and Gender Rights 149
Global Contestations of Social Reproduction 161
Legal Equality without Justice 183
Family Law Exceptionalism and Contestations over Women's Rights in Mali's Family Code Reform 201
The Legal Contestation of Abortion Rights 217
Reproductive Rights as Battlefield in the New Cold War 231
Post-Conflict Gender Inequalities in Nigeria 249
Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities 267
Politicizations of Religion in Morocco and Germany 287
Mera Jism Meri Marzi 307
Global Contestations over Gender Equality in Islam 327
Authors 345