Pathways
Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform
This ground-breaking new collection edited by Mulki Al-Sharmani in the Pathways Zed Feminisms and Development series investigates the relationship between feminist activism and legal reform as a pathway to gender justice and social change.
It sheds much new light on the complex relationship between feminist activism and legal reform.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS
Feminist Activism, Women's Rights, and Legal Reform is available to buy from IDS Publications
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Legal Reform and Feminist Activism
This project researched the reforms that have been taking place in Egyptian personal status laws since 2000. The aim was to examine the unfolding reform story and what it entailed in terms of successes and challenges for women's rights activists in their pursuit of justice and equality in marriage and divorce rights, and for Egyptian women at large who seek legal redress in family courts. The focus of the study was on two aspects of the reform story: 1) the process of mobilising for the new laws, building alliances, choosing strategies, and making concessions, and 2) the implementation of the legal reforms in the new family courts that were introduced in 2004. …