The question of women‘s rights in Islam generates huge interest among Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Scholars of feminism are sharply divided on the question of women‘s status in Islam. One group associates Islam with misogyny and gender oppression, while the other celebrates the religion as a liberatory force for women. Remarkably, despite a surge in female educational attainment and conscious...

Book review of Fabio Giomi's Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Islam, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Bosnia Yugoslavia (1878-1941).

Status of women is the mirror of cultural and socio – economic development of our country. Women’s status and fertility are interrelated. Various factorsenvironmental, socioeconomic, biological, psychological or cultural factors affect fertility. There is a positive correlation between women’s status and their fertility. Educated women have low birth rate in comparison to uneducated women. The ...

Predictors of rural women's attitudes in Nigeria toward intimate partner violence (IPV) were investigated using a random sample of rural women (n = 3911) aged 15-49 years from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Findings were suggestive of social, religious, and cultural influences in the women's attitudes towards IPV. Women resident in the three northern regions, the South S...

This article proposes a conception of freedom understood as practices. Based on Michel Foucault’s work on the ethics of the self, I develop a conception of freedom that exceeds liberation and distinguishes between genuine practices of freedom and practices of the self that are unreflective responses to systems of government. I develop and illustrate this conception through an engagement with th...