Religious Fundamentalisms And The Human Rights Of Women Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Social and Political Sciences Perspectives on the Impact of Religious Fundamentalism on Women
1	Fundamentalism	3
2	Christian Fundamentalism: Patriarchy, Sexuality, and Human Rights	9
3	What is your Tribe?: Women's Struggles and the Construction of Muslimness	21
4	The Personal is Political: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women's Empowerment	33
II	Responses to Religious Fundamentalist Assertions of Cultural Relativism
5	Relativism, Culture, Religion, and Identity	45
6	Cultural Relativism and International Law	55
7	Gender Apartheid and the Discourse of Relativity of Rights in Muslim Societies	67
8	Different but Free: Cultural Relativism and Women's Rights as Human Rights	79
III	The Conflict between the Human Rights of Women and the Religious Freedom of Fundamentalists: The International Legal Framework
9	Safeguarding Women's Political Freedoms under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in the Face of Religious Fundamentalism	93
10	Religious Reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women: What Do They Really Mean?	105
11	Women's Equal Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: An Important but Neglected Subject	117
12	The Potential of International Law to Combat Discrimination against Girls in Education	129
IV	Religious Fundamentalism and National Laws
13	The Two Faces of Secularism and Women's Rights in India	143
14	Religion and Patriarchal Politics: The Israeli Experience	155
15	Family Disputes Involving Muslim Women in Contemporary Europe: Immigrant Women Caught between Islamic Family Law and Women's Rights	167
V	The War over Women's Bodies: Sexuality and Reproduction
16	Finding Our Feet, Standing Our Ground: Reproductive Health Activism in an Era of Rising Fundamentalism and Economic Globalization	181
17	Roman Catholic Fundamentalism: What's Sex (and Power) Got To Do with It?	193
18	Reconciling the Opposites: Equal but Subordinate	203
19	Buddhism and Human Rights in the Thai Sex Trade	215
VI	Nonlegal Remedies, Resistance, and Exit
20	Women Educating Women in the Afghan Diaspora: Why and How	229
21	Challenging Christian Fundamentalism: Organizing an Alternative to the Religious Right in Your State	237
22	Gender-Based Asylum in the United States: A View from the Trenches	247
23	Tales of Subversion: Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran	257
VII	Religious Challenges to Religious Fundamentalism
24	A Feminist Perspective on Jewish Fundamentalism	271
25	Truth over Convention: Feminist Interpretations of Buddhism	281
26	Religion and Women's Rights: The Fundamentalist Face of Catholicism in Brazil	293
27	Reclaiming the Religious Center from a Muslim Perspective: Theological Alternatives to Religious Fundamentalism	303
	Contributors	315
	Index	323