Diakui atau tidak, selama ini kecenderungan masyarakat menempatkan laki-laki di dunia publik dan perempuan di dunia domestik terjadi hampir pada setiap peradaban manusia. Perempuan dianggap superior dalam aktivitas rumah tangga (kegiatan domestik), sementara laki-laki dianggap paling bertanggung jawab dalam kegiatan publik. Dengan melihat realitas di atas, meskipun perkembangan keterlibatan per…
Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women's lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes. Exemplifying how feminist approaches can be used to analyse all areas of international law, this book applies posthuman feminist theory to examine the regulation of new…
Introduction : decolonization, anticapitalist critique, and feminist commitments Decolonizing feminism. Under western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses ; Cartographies of struggle : third world women and the politics of feminism ; What's home got to do with it? (with Biddy Martin) ; Sisterhood, coalition, and the politics of experience ; Genealogies of community, home, and na…
Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a "pure" Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developm…