Arabs at Home and in the World: Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367662622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 188 str.

Karla McKanders

Opis

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critically analyze the intersection of gender and human rights laws as applied to individuals of Arab descent.

Spis treści

Foreword

Adrien Wing 

Part 1: The Intersection of Gender and Human Rights Norms for Individuals of Arab Descent

1. Introduction. Gender, Identity and Human Rights

Karla McKanders

2.Hijab as a Human Right

Louise Cainkar

3. The Accession of Palestine to CEDAW: Quo Vadis?

Mutaz M. Qafisheh

Part 2: At Home: Arab Spring, Gender and Human Rights

4.The Sources of Patriarchal Authority in the Maghreb

Fatima Sadiqi

5. Media Representations of Palestinian Women

Halla Shoaibi

Part 3: Impact of Gender on Arab Migration and Human Rights Norms

6. Reframing Violence Against Male Asylum Seekers from the Region as Gender-based Persecution

Valorie Vojdik

7. Gender, Islamophobia and Refugee Exceptionalism

Karla McKanders

8. Moroccan Women’s Migration to Europe as a Transformative Experience

Moha Ennaji

O autorze

Karla M. McKanders is a Clinical Professor at Vanderbilt University, School of Law in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.