Garimpo

Women, Property Rights, and Islam

“…12 Because activists' strategies overwhelmingly rely on soft power, they are most likely to be effective in states that value their reputations, or are more dependent on foreign trade and assistance. 13 A long history of successful challenges to state discrimination lends support for the advocacy-based approach. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, women's movements advanced married women's property rights, leading to independent women's rights to acquire and manage property.…”