The ‘Sharia Law Debate’ in Ontario: The Modernity/Premodernity Distinction in Legal Efforts to Protect Women from Culture

Feminist Legal Studies - Tập 15 Số 1 - Trang 3-32 - 2007
Sherene H. Razack1
1Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 12-266, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1V6

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