Introduction: gender, development and fundamentalisms
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Publication
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom
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[ private ]
Volume
V25
Pages
15p
Subject
Gender, GOD, Devlopment, Religion
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Abstract
This issue of Gender & Development focuses on the impact of religious fundamentalisms
on women’s rights and gender justice. While the term fundamentalisms is both emotive,
and contested1 the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) argues for
its use as ‘the term most commonly understood by activists’ (AWID 2016, 5). AWID
defines religious fundamentalisms as extremist ideologies which invoke religion to gain
political, economic and social power, and justify discrimination, intolerance and violations
of human rights; which use coercion and violence to impose their ideologies; and which
draw on the notion of a communal, shared identity (‘us’) against all others (ibid.).
on women’s rights and gender justice. While the term fundamentalisms is both emotive,
and contested1 the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) argues for
its use as ‘the term most commonly understood by activists’ (AWID 2016, 5). AWID
defines religious fundamentalisms as extremist ideologies which invoke religion to gain
political, economic and social power, and justify discrimination, intolerance and violations
of human rights; which use coercion and violence to impose their ideologies; and which
draw on the notion of a communal, shared identity (‘us’) against all others (ibid.).
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15 p.; 25 cm
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