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Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh

There is no denying that women in many societies suffer from multiple layers of discriminations and social exclusion, and that the patriarchal social structure aggravates their susceptibility to various forms of oppression and abuse. Men have enjoyed various privileges at the expense of women’s rig...

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Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
English
Published: Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT) 2016
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HQ1101 Women. Feminism
BP170.8 Universality of Islam
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spelling my.iium.irep.503832016-10-25T00:44:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50383/ Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh Hasan, Md. Mahmudul HQ1101 Women. Feminism BP170.8 Universality of Islam There is no denying that women in many societies suffer from multiple layers of discriminations and social exclusion, and that the patriarchal social structure aggravates their susceptibility to various forms of oppression and abuse. Men have enjoyed various privileges at the expense of women’s rights and wellbeing. Whenever challenged, custodians of gender-based inequalities have used social mythologies, and sometimes pseudo-religious arguments, to facilitate and sustain the complex structure of gender stereotypes and to defend their privileges, and thus to perpetuate their domination over women. As a result, as far as gender relations are concerned, especially in Muslim cultural contexts, religion and patriarchy seem enmeshed and inseparable because of misuse and wrong interpretations or misapplications of Islamic religious texts. However, people of good will and sound judgment and intellectuals with substantial socio-cultural knowledge and Islamic scholarship have said it over and over again that the religion of Islam is a means of, and not an impediment to, women’s liberation and empowerment. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT) Hasan, Md. Mahmudul Mohd Yunus, Raudah 2016-03 Book Chapter REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50383/8/50383.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50383/11/50383-Cover.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2016) Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh. In: Islam and Gender: The Bangladesh Perspective. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh , pp. 1-10. ISBN 978-984-8471-43-2 http://www.iiitbd.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Islam-and-Gender-The-Bangladesh-Perstecve_Full-Version.pdf
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BP170.8 Universality of Islam
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BP170.8 Universality of Islam
Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh
description There is no denying that women in many societies suffer from multiple layers of discriminations and social exclusion, and that the patriarchal social structure aggravates their susceptibility to various forms of oppression and abuse. Men have enjoyed various privileges at the expense of women’s rights and wellbeing. Whenever challenged, custodians of gender-based inequalities have used social mythologies, and sometimes pseudo-religious arguments, to facilitate and sustain the complex structure of gender stereotypes and to defend their privileges, and thus to perpetuate their domination over women. As a result, as far as gender relations are concerned, especially in Muslim cultural contexts, religion and patriarchy seem enmeshed and inseparable because of misuse and wrong interpretations or misapplications of Islamic religious texts. However, people of good will and sound judgment and intellectuals with substantial socio-cultural knowledge and Islamic scholarship have said it over and over again that the religion of Islam is a means of, and not an impediment to, women’s liberation and empowerment.
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