Global contestations of gender rights / Alexandra Scheele, Julia Roth, Heidemarie Winkel (editions.).

On cover: "Bielefeld University Press."

Papers from a midterm conference of the research group "Global contestations of Women's and Gender Rights" held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University.

Symbol for woman in cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Global Contestations of Gender Rights -- Part I – Framing the Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights -- Analytical Framing -- Gendering Global Entanglements -- Global Contestations of Gender Equality and Queer Rights -- Gender Equality Policy in Practice in the Era of Global Contestation -- Worldwide Anti-Gender Mobilization -- Part II – Reconfiguring Universal Rights Norms -- Gendered Normativities: The Role and Rule of Law -- Decolonizing Universalism? -- Self, Relation and Gender Rights -- Part III – Reproduction of Inequalities: Institutionalized Power Relations -- Global Contestations of Social Reproduction -- Legal Equality without Justice -- Family Law Exceptionalism and Contestations over Women’s Rights in Mali’s Family Code Reform -- The Legal Contestation of Abortion Rights -- Reproductive Rights as Battlefield in the New Cold War -- Post-Conflict Gender Inequalities in Nigeria -- Part IV – Negotiating the Global and Local Production of Normativities -- Liberalism and the Construction of Gender (Non-)Normative Bodies and Queer Identities -- Politicizations of Religion in Morocco and Germany -- Mera Jism Meri Marzi -- Global Contestations over Gender Equality in Islam

Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.