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…