International Journal of Law in Context

Table of Contents - June 2012 - Volume , Special Issue 02 (Family – An International Affair)  

Articles

Sacralising the patriarchal family in the monotheistic religions: ‘To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom’*

Frances Radaya1 c1

a1 Haim Striks School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel**

Abstract

This article attempts to unravel the universal human rights implications of family law in the three monotheisms – Jewish, Christian and Muslim. At issue is the requirement of gender equality as justice in the family. This requirement is inherent in the human rights agenda, a novel point of departure in political philosophy and antithetical to the patriarchal family sacralised in the monotheistic religions.

Correspondence:

c1 frances.raday@gmail.com

Footnotes

* Susan B. Anthony.

** I am very grateful for the research assistance of Revital Turgeman, whose painstaking work and enthusiasm have been a delight.