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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Alice J. Kang, âBargaining for Womenâs Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracyâ (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Description: Alice J. Kang has written Bargaining for Womenâs Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). Kang is assistant professor of political science and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Much attention is paid to Muslim-majority countries across the Middle East, especially the contentious role of womenâs rights in those countries. Less attention has been paid to Muslim democracies in Africa. Kangâs book focuses on the politics of womenâs rights in one such country: Niger. Womenâs rights activists in Niger have fought to participate in democratic governance, but havenât wo...