Gender

Watch Video As the Taliban and US negotiate a peace deal, Afghan women fear their rights and freedoms will be traded for stability. “If they captured us, they’d kill us.” Laila Haidari drives a car, […]

Islamic feminism is a relatively new concept and not without controversy. Indeed many wonder whether it is possible to reconcile feminism with Islam – a religion critics regard as inherently patriarchal.

The most recent rape and murder in Pakistan caused a huge public outcry. Though similar cases in India have tended to attract fewer headlines, sexual violence in both countries is an ongoing problem

Occasionally periods of social regression and progressive developments occur simultaneously. After all, among the many catastrophic reports emerging from the Arab world there are also a few glimmers of hope – for women.

In 2006, Azerbaijan’s National Assembly and its 125 members pledged their full support for the European Union’s campaign to tackle all forms of violence against women in Azerbaijan.

This resource is the seventh chapter in the book Sociological Theory in the Conemporary Era: Text and Readings (2010) by Scott Appelrouth and Laura Desfor Edles. The chapter outlines each of the following feminist or gender analysts and the theoretical viewpoints associated with them.

Social justice movements are able to generate deep and lasting changes that policy change and development interventions alone cannot achieve. However, in many cases, women’s rights and gender justice remain low on the priorities of movements