Gender justice in a post-secular age? Domestic violence, Islamic sharia, and the liberal legal paradigm

In liberal democracies, debates about the status of women and debates about the authority of religious legal-moral systems often converge in the area of family law. Focusing on domestic violence, I show a patriarchal bias pervades both Islamic and liberal moral discourse. In order to argue effectively for women's rights, we must address the relationship between secular law, religious identity and legal expression, and gender.