Citizenship, Faith, & Feminism: Jewish and Muslim Women Reclaim Their Rights

by Jan Feldman

Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious community (which distributes roles and power based on gender). This book shows how these "dual citizens"--Orthodox Jewish women in Israel, Muslim women in Kuwait, and women of both those faiths in the U.S.--have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584659734
• ISBN13: 9781584659730
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"