Abstract
This Note examines a new understanding of women’s marital rights in Islam, as under a socialist feminist critique, and the subsequent feasibility of Muslim same-sex marriage. In so doing it will focus largely on Islamic legal theories, socialist feminist theory, and queer theory. Overall this Note finds that Muslim women’s marital rights currently exist under an asymmetrical rights paradigm. Following a socialist feminist critique, all but one of these rights, the right to provisions from one’s husband, would survive. In addition, Muslim same-sex marriage remains feasible under the socialist feminist critique following the destruction of the asymmetrical rights paradigm.
Keywords
Same-sex Marriage, Socialist feminism, Islam, Muslim Women, Marital Rights