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no responses By Asma Barlas
Third International Congress on Islamic Feminism, Barcelona, October 25, 2008
This time, our focus is on globalization and the double oppression of Muslim women resulting from both neo-liberalism and religious fundamentalism, and our charge is to analyze how Islamic feminists (and I assume, Muslim women), are responding to these challenges. In particular, we have been asked to assess how they are contributing to “the construction of a new worldwide civil society based on a culture of human rights and universal values such as democracy, social justice, freedom of conscience and gender equality.”
Continue reading: Globalizing Equality. Double oppressions; double critiques
