Competing Fundamentalism And Egyptian Women's Family Rights : International Law And The Reform Of Shari'a - Derived Legislation
\ By Jasmine Moussa
Leiden , Boston
: Brill
, 2011
XX,300 p.
Brill's Arab and Islamic laws series
; v. 4
Index
The human rights of women in a specific cultural context -- The sources of international women's rights law and international enforcement mechanisms -- The prohibition of gender discrimination under CEDAW and the role of the CEDAW committee -- Shari'a-based reservations : the law andpolitics of invalidity -- Shari'a law and the development of Egypt's personal status legislation -- Gender (in)equality and the Shari'a in Egypt's constitution : the role of the Supreme Constitutional Court's jurisprudence -- Marriage, divorce, and inheritance : unequal power structures and women's equality rights -- The positive prospects for personal status law reform : two steps forward -- Domestic enforcement of women's human rights.