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9780415191739

Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

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    9780415191739

  • ISBN10:

    0415191734

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-08-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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In recent years, the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement.Human Rights and Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacificexamines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific
1(36)
Maila Stivens.
Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue
37(23)
Vera Mackie
The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of `rights' in India
60(23)
Kalpana Ram
Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China
83(24)
Antonia Finnane
The human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia
107(17)
Krishna Sen
Women ikat raet long human raet o no?: Women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu
124(23)
Margaret Jolly
`Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rights
147(25)
Martha Macintyre
The Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore
172(21)
Anne-Marie Hilsdon
Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights
193(18)
Beryl Langer
The emergence of `modern' gay identities and the question of human rights
211(18)
Dennis Altman
Index 229

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