SGS 394: Women, Conflict & Religion Final Exam - Study Guide ***Know the names ***4-5 terms & 1 essay question Women Living Under Muslim Law Sunder’s conception of religion Sunder’s main point -Yale Law Journal -Human rights law as a problem with religion -The two are considered completely different fields -Law should think of religion differently; that it has multiple voices and constantly being contested. -In this chapter, Sunder criticizes human rights law for conceptualizing religion/culture as incontestable institutions. She argues that as human right law is currently expressed, individuals must choose between rights and religion; there is no option to critique or reform religion; if one’s religion is oppressive, then one should just leave it (and the community associated with it.) Sunder further argues that law is failing to change with a society that is increasingly unwilling to accept this binary. -She analyzes the transnational network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws and the human rights manual, Claiming Our Rights as examples of activist work on the ground in Muslim communities that is working to subvert this dichotomy and create a space for women to have equality both within and without religion. Islamic feminism -A movement that works with the culture and religion of Islamic countries, not against it. -Activists found out early that they would not be accepted if they spoke/taught against their culture and religion in the name of women’s rights. -Started learning more about the Koran and Islamic teachings to find passages that promote women’s rights -These women did not want to choose between their religion and rights. Coleman’s Three Legs of the Stool -Access to income, education and political voice Hadith -Collections of the reports claiming to quote what the prophet Muhammadsaid verbatim on any matter. -Islamists look to the Hadith for clarification on the quran -Showed what mohammad approved and disapproved of -A guide on how muslims should live their life -Turkey is currently doing something controversial and reexamining the hadith which could help eliminate discrimination towards women by deleting some of the misogynistic hadith, in order to keep up with modernity.
SGS 394: Women, Conflict & Religion Final Exam - Study Guide Purdah -the practice among women in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of living in a separate room or behind a curtain, or of dressing in all-enveloping clothes, in order to stay out of the sight of men or strangers. -strongest in parts of india -extreme purdah harms the society Madrasa -is the Arabicword for any type of educational institution, whether secularor religious (of any religion). -The Taliban were strict with women and shut down madrasas in Saudi Arabia and neighboring areas -Taliban also restricted the number of women that could receive an education -This in turn led to a collapse of the educational system in afghanistan since it decimated the ranks of female teachers, even in boy’s schools.
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