The Tension Between Women's Rights and Religions: The Case of Malaysia - Hardcover

Bong, Sharon A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773455795 ISBN 13: 9780773455795

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This study considers how localizing the integration of rights, cultures, and religion challenges the universality and secularization of the rights discourse and practice globally; the extent to which this bridges the disparity between the rhetoric and implementation of women's human rights in global and local contexts; and the embodiment of an Asian-Malaysian feminist standpoint epistemology that has the potential to reconcile the impasse of universal versus cultural relativism of rights. It offers a solution to the impasse of universalism versus relativism of rights in the rhetoric and practice of women's human rights.

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About the Author

Saron A. Bong lectures in Women's Studies and Creative Writing at the School of Arts and Sciences, Monash University based in Malaysia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773455795
• ISBN 13: 9780773455795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312