Women, Agency and Religion

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.

• Introduction: Women, religions, and human rights in the Mediterranean context; 1. Gender, citizenship, religious identity: innovative approaches to autonomy and political agency; 2. Feminist-religious intersections across the Mediterranean; 3. The role of European private law in rendering women’s participation to public space effective; 4. Queer as a lesson in reality; 5. Women in the Catholic Church: (de)sacralising boundaries; 6. Commitment to gender equality and human rights – an idealistic passion?; 7. Fèminismes laïques, secular feminists and Islamic feminisms in Muslim countries: experiences in the Maghreb; 8. Islamist women’s mobilization and agency in the Arab Uprisings and their aftermath in Egypt; 9. Gender equality and Islam: experiences in Morocco; 10. Algerian citizenship between the principle of equality and freedom of enterprise; 11. Gender Equality in political participation in Libya: the transition’s controversial assessment; 12. Women and political parties in contemporary Türkiye; 13. The structural inequalities in laws and practices and their impact on women’s agency in Lebanon: the long battle for gender equality