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Lebanese Women at the Crossroads
Caught between Sect and Nation
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2020
Summary
Thirty years after the end of the civil war, Lebanese women are still struggling for gender equality. This study builds on recent scholarship on women’s activism in the Arab world, in the context of the Arab Spring. It examines how discourses of secularism and equal civil rights have informed the contemporary Lebanese women’s movement in their campaigns for a domestic violence law, women’s nationality rights, a women’s quota in parliament, the reform of personal status law and the recognition of civil marriage. This book argues that women are caught between sect and nation, due to Lebanon’s plural legal system, which makes a division between religious and civil law. While both jurisdictions allocate women relational rights, guided by the logic of patrilineal descent, women’s inequality is central to the reproduction of sectarian difference and patriarchal control within the confessional political system, as a whole.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-2274-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-2275-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
148
Product Type
Monograph
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List of Map, Figures, and Tables No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Chapter 1 Introduction No access
Chapter 2 The Formation of Lebanon as a Confessional Democracy No access
Chapter 3 Gender and Personal Status Law in Lebanon No access
Chapter 4 A New Phase of Women’s Rights Activism No access
Chapter 5 Intersectional Activism No access
Chapter 6 The Quest for Civil Marriage No access
Chapter 7 Conclusion No access
Glossary of Arabic Terms No access Pages 125 - 126
