SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Diederik Korteweg, Social Inequality, Epithelial Sodium Channel
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The debate in ontario: gender, islam, and representations of muslim women"s. In this article, anna korteweg, who teaches sociology at the university of toronto, analyzes a media debate about muslim women and islamic law that took place a few years ago in. Note that this public discussion arose out of measures that were enacted to address a practical need a backlog in the provincial courts. And this specific question regarding the use of religious courts to mediate family and business problems is part of the much larger and very long-standing question about the role of religious establishments in public life in canada. Korteweg points out that, in ontario, allowing religious bodies to adjudicate family problems did not attract widespread attention as long as it involved the. It was the possibility of muslim clerics becoming empowered to mediate family problems that brought widespread media attention and debate.
