Globally 100–140 million women and girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) which is a harmful practice, associated with immediate and long term complications, has …
This case study article examines the South African context, introduces the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) in Cape Town, South Africa as a feminist organisation, and explores the strategies of the W…
This article investigates gender implications of judicial activism within the context of the 2011 revolution. Relying on analysis of a sample of judicial decisions in the field of divorce and chi…
At their essence, feminist epistemologies argue that traditional male epistemologies have systematically removed the voice of women from knowledge production, effectively barring women from being…
This case study article examines the South African context, introduces the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) in Cape Town, South Africa as a feminist organisation, and explores the strategies of the WLC…
This article investigates gender implications of judicial activism within the context of the 2011 revolution. Relying on analysis of a sample of judicial decisions in the field of divorce and chi…
It gives me a great pleasure to be the guest editor of this special issue of Muslim women in Africa and the Diaspora of the prize winner international journal JENdA: The Journal of Culture and Afri…
This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal and…
This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal a…
The history of Islam had not itself been previously confronted with what is now called “women’s issues,”despite the great diversity in customs and cultures among Muslims over the centuries. A…