Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Alexandra Scheele, Julia Roth, Heidemarie Winkel, Alexandra Scheele, Julia Roth, Heidemarie Winkel

• Publisher: Bielefeld University Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9783839460696
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Across the globe, a growing number of social movements, such as demonstrations in support of equal civil status or reproductive freedom and against sexualized violence, show that women's and gender rights are highly contested. Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, the contributors to this volume deal with the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of the global challenges to equality. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach and unites scholars from law, linguistics, cultural studies, history, social sciences, and gender studies in diverse contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Global Contestations of Gender Rights
• Part I – Framing the Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights
• Part II – Reconfiguring Universal Rights Norms
• Part III – Reproduction of Inequalities: Institutionalized Power Relations
• Part IV – Negotiating the Global and Local Production of Normativities
• Authors