Status Updates From Women, Family, and Gender i...

In casting the issue [of women sentenced to stoning in Nigeria] as a cultural clash, as an enlightened attack on traditional oppressive practice, the internationalization of these cases made it it increasingly difficult for local women to speak up out of fear of being branded as inauthentic or, in extreme instances, as allies of neo-imperial projects.

"As al-Marghinani put it, 'a husband's right to confine his wife at hoem is solely for the sake of securing to himself the enjoyment of her person'; and thsu even if she refused intercourse, as long as she remained in her husband's house she should receive maintenance because he could force her to have sex."

This is rough read so far.