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Performative Contradictions of Women's Rights and Religious Freedoms: Dissonance across Space and Time

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This piece deliberates on Rola El-Husseini’s contribution to contemporary debates on double standards and dissonance at the intersection of women’s rights and religious freedom in the Global North by highlighting similar performative contradictions of the past. In exercising thinking through current dilemmas with Mark Twain’s commentary on non-dyadic marriages in the Ottoman Empire and the United States, this reaction suggests that across time and space, whoever the manufactured “other” may be, the processes and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion generally favor the interests of those who hold and seek to maintain the greatest martial, economic, and political power.

Source: Czech Journal of International Relations

DOI: 10.32422/cjir.1645

Author: A. Ebru Akcasu

Institution: Anglo-American University

Language: English

Topic: Religious Freedom and Discrimination

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4404892350

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