1st Edition
Women, Agency and Religion Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
Introduction: Women, religions, and human rights in the Mediterranean context
Ilaria Valenzi
1. Gender, citizenship, religious identity: innovative approaches to autonomy and political agency
Debora Spini
2. Feminist-religious intersections across the Mediterranean
Alberta Giorgi
3. The role of European private law in rendering women’s participation to public space effective
Barbara Pozzo
4. Queer as a lesson in reality
Letizia Tomassone
5. Women in the Catholic Church: (de)sacralising boundaries
Cristina Simonelli
6. Commitment to gender equality and human rights – an idealistic passion?
Diana Çuli
7. Fèminismes laïques, secular feminists and Islamic feminisms in Muslim countries: experiences in the Maghreb
Leïla Tauil
8. Islamist women’s mobilization and agency in the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath in Egypt
Erika Biagini and Paola Rivetti
9. Gender equality and Islam: experiences in Morocco
Asma Lamrabet
10. Algerian citizenship between the principle of equality and freedom of enterprise
Leila Boussaid and Souad Ghaouti Malki
11. Gender Equality in political participation in Libya: the transition’s controversial assessment
Jinene Limam
12. Women and political parties in contemporary Türkiye
Jean Marcou
13. The structural inequalities in laws and practices and their impact on women’s agency in Lebanon: the long battle for gender equality
Rita Chemaly
Biography
Ilaria Valenzi is a researcher in law and religion at the University of Milan and a member of the Scientific Council of the Redesm Research Centre at the University of Insubria. She is also adjunct professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she works on the religious factor in determining the role of politics and law in the global space. Her research focuses on post-secular freedom of religion and belief and religious minorities at the intersection of other personal and collective identity factors.
