"Gender and Women's Rights: Beyond Islamic Feminism"

Zakia Salime is Associate Professor, Sociology & Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the author of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco (University of Minnesota Press 2011). Her teaching and research focuses on the zones of frictions and tensions between universalist regimes and racialized categories of development, democratization and rights, and their gendered configurations. Her talk will focus on her current book project. For lunch: RSVP m.weitzel@duke.edu