Women's Human Rights
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Women's Human Rights

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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.

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2013
ISBN
9780745654942
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of acronyms and abbreviations
  9. 1. Women’s Human Rights Advocacy
  10. 2. Human Rights, Gender and Contested Meanings
  11. 3. Women’s Human Rights as Equality and Non-Discrimination
  12. 4. Violence and Reproductive Health as Human Rights Issues
  13. 5. Women’s Human Rights in Conflict and Post-Conflict Transformation
  14. 6. Development, Globalization and Women’s Human Rights
  15. 7. Fundamentalisms and Women’s Human Rights
  16. 8. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index