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Title Gender and justice in family law disputes : women, mediation, and religious arbitration / edited by Samia Bano
Published Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 334 pages)
Series Brandeis series on gender, culture, religion, and law
Brandeis series on gender, culture, religion & law.
Contents Foreword / Lisa Fishbayn Joffe -- Introduction : women, mediation, and religious arbitration : thinking through gender and justice in family law disputes / Samia Bano -- When is mediation mediatory and when is it really adjudicatory? : religion, norms, and decision making / Lisa Webley -- Agency, autonomy, and rights : Muslim women and alternative dispute resolution in Britain / Samia Bano -- The growing alignment of religion and the law : what price do women pay? / Pragna Patel -- Family law and mediation in practice in England and Wales / Sarah Beskine -- Muslim mediation and arbitration : insights from community and legal practice / Saher Tariq -- Do sharia councils meet the needs of muslim women? / Rehana Parveen -- British muslim women and barriers to obtaining a religious divorce / Shaista Gohir and Nazmin Akthar-Sheikh -- Religious arbitration in North America / Wendy Kennett -- A court of her own : autonomy, gender, and women's courts in India / Gopika Solanki -- Islamic community processes in Australia : an introduction / Ghena Krayem and Farrah Ahmed -- Faith-based family dispute resolution in Finnish mosques : unfolding roles and evolving practices / Mulki Al-Sharmani, Sanna Mustasaari, and Abdirashid A. Ismail -- Together forever, are you kidding me? : Catholicism, same-sex couples, disputes, and dispute resolution in italy / Maria Federica Moscati
Summary How mediation and religious dispute-resolution mechanisms operate within diverse communities
Analysis Faith-based dispute resolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2017)
Subject Matrimonial actions.
Dispute resolution (Law)
Divorce mediation -- Religious aspects.
Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LAW / General
Dispute resolution (Law)
Divorce mediation -- Religious aspects
Matrimonial actions
Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bano, Samia, editor.
LC no. 2016038724
ISBN 9781512600360
1512600369