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Item Critical Reflections on the Structural Legal Power in Human Rights Law(The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2023-03) Hajyahia, AlaaIn Europe, a wide range of religion-based practices have been at the center of public debate over the last two decades. This paper focuses on one such practice: the wearing of Islamic veils in public spaces in Europe. Through one representative case study, I explore how the Muslim woman is constructed by the European Court of Human Rights. I offer a diagnosis of the Court’s ontological position, which, I argue, is shared by the Court’s legal–feminist critics. Later, I turn to the fields of cultural sociology, social anthropology, hermeneutics, law, and political theory to develop an ‘alternative ontological position’, a position that situates Muslim women as neither ‘political’ nor ‘suffering’ others, but as morally evaluative humans distinctly and deeply informed by their unique cultural experiences. Having set forth that alternative position, this paper argues that in cases involving Muslim women, the determinations of the European Court of Human Rights, serve to – both actively and passively – maintain, protect, and enforce white power and control as defined by critical race scholars, all under the guise of gender equality.Item Outside the mainstream : ǂb representations of Muslim women during the Shah Bano Debate(2006-12) Kolbeck, Ann Elizabeth; Minault, Gail, 1939-This paper examines coverage of the 1985-1986 Shah Bano Debate in three nonmainstream periodicals: the Organiser, Muslim India, and Manushi. I perform a close reading of these sources to problematize the image of the "Muslim woman" presented in mainstream Indian media at this time. Such an examination necessitates a discussion of women's right versus the rights of minority religious communities in India. I also examine the background to this debate, namely the Shah Bano judgment itself and the environment in which it occurred.Item SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal, Volume 20(2011) University of Texas at Austin; Milligan, Matthew D.; Rudmann, Dan; Abbas, Amber; Bachrach, Emilia; Schulz, Suzanne; Graves, Eben; Jones, Mike; Langberg, Hillary; Mehta, Nishtha; Sinha, Jayita; Zahn, Jackie