ISBN:
9781351726672
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Statement:
Global Gender Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48/697071
Keywords:
Muslim women-Canada
;
Women (Islamic law)-Canada
;
Women's rights-Canada
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Arabic words -- 1 Liberal-secular sensibilities and a genealogy of the Ontario Shari'ah tribunals -- Introduction -- Framing the debates -- Sources and method -- Theoretical frameworks -- The Arbitration Act, S.O. 1991 -- Historicizing the proposed Ontario Shari'ah tribunals -- Marion Boyd report -- The Boyd Report and the Arbitration Act -- The Boyd report and consultations -- Arc of the book -- Notes -- Works cited -- 2 From Orientalism to neo-orientalism: Discourses of race and imperial hegemony in the name of gender equality -- Introduction -- The liberal empire, the language of rights, and the category of gender -- A feminist compulsion, or, sharing the white man's burden -- Discourses of neo-orientalism and cultural authenticity -- Hyperpatriarchal chronicles -- Insider saviors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 3 Liberalism, the court system, and multiculturalism: Examining epistemic claims -- Introduction -- The normalization of liberalism: Are Muslim women really equal? -- The court system, the assertion of vulnerability, and protection -- Tensions of multicultural discourses -- Taming multiculturalism or expressing bigotry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 4 Secularism and its discontents: Social hierarchies that matter -- Introduction -- Secularism as a worldview -- Secularism, religion, and social hierarchies -- Civilized rational secularism/uncivilized irrational religion -- Public secularism/private religion: The feminization of religion -- Nonpatriarchal progressive secularism/patriarchal repressive religious -- Secularism under the gaze of a religious mind -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 5 Aversion or conversion: A missed opportunity? -- Introduction.
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