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Author : Veena Poonacha
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Feminism
ISBN :
With special reference to current issues focussing on women in changing India.
Author : Niamh Reilly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745654940
Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.
Author : Roman Kuhar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786600013
This edited collection offers a transnational and comparative approach to understanding anti-gender mobilizations in Europe.
Author : Wendy S. Hesford
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813535890
Bringing together some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors.
Author : J. S. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317325486
This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.
Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2012-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812201663
Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.
Author : Siobhán Mullally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1847311555
In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists have questioned the very premises upon which the international human rights movement is based. Rather than abandoning human rights discourse, however, this book argues that feminism should reclaim the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. Discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism is offered as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are explored in the context of the reservations debate in international human rights law and further examined in debates on women's human rights arising in Ireland, India and Pakistan. Each of these states shares a common constitutional heritage and, in each, religious-cultural claims, intertwined with processes of nation-building, have constrained the pursuit of gender equality. Ultimately, this book argues in favour of a dual-track approach to cultural conflicts, combining legal regulation with an ongoing moral-political dialogue on the scope and content of human rights.
Author : Robin Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135054770
Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of violence and human subjectivity in the context of human rights. Using an innovative visual methodology, Redhead shines a new critical light on human rights campaigns in practice. She examines two cases in-depth. First, she shows how Amnesty International depicts women negatively in their 2004 ‘Stop Violence against Women Campaign’, revealing the political implications of how images deny women their agency because violence is gendered. She also analyses the Oka conflict between indigenous people and the Canadian state. She explains how the Canadian state defined the Mohawk people in such a way as to deny their human subjectivity. By looking at how the Mohawk used visual media to communicate their plight beyond state boundaries, she delves into the disjuncture between state sovereignty and human rights. This book is useful for anyone with an interest in human rights campaigns and in the study of political images.
Author : Anne-Marie Hilsdon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0415191742
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : C. Howland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1999-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230107389
Dialogue on the conflict between religious fundamentalism and women's rights is often stymied by an 'all or nothing' approach: fundamentalists claim of absolute religious freedom, while some feminists dismiss religion entirely as being so imbued with patriarchy as to be eternally opposed to women's rights. This ignores, though, the experiences of religious women who suffer under fundamentalism and fight to resist it, perceiving themselves to be at once religious and feminist. In Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women , Howland provides a forum for these different scholars, both religious and nonreligious, to meet and seek common ground in their fight against fundamentalism. Through an examination of international human rights, national law, grass roots activism, and theology, this volume explores the acute problems that contemporary fundamentalist movements pose for women's equality and liberty rights.