Women's Rights, Human Rights

by Peters, Julie Stone; Wolper, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780415909945
• ISBN10: 0415909945
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Hevener Kaufman, Jasmina Kuzmanovic, Liza Largoza-Maza, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Brigitte Mabandla, Julie Mertus, Akram Mirhosseini, Koki Muli, Ilka Tanya Payan, Hnin Hnin Pyne, Arati Rao, Huda A. Seif, Carmel Shalev, Elissavet Stamatopoulou, Maria Suarez Toro, Donna Sullivan, Dorothy Q. Thomas, Nahid Toubia, Sima Wali, Nadia H. Youssef, Zhu Hong

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Transforming Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective	p. 11
Women's Human Rights: The Emergence of a Movement	p. 18
Women's Rights and the United Nations	p. 36
Violence Against Women: The Indian Perspective	p. 51
Legacies of Invisibility: Past Silence, Present Violence Against Women in the Former Yugoslavia	p. 57
The Medium Term Philippine Development Plan Toward the Year 2000: Filipino Women's Issues and Perspectives	p. 62
Women in South Africa and the Constitution-Making Process	p. 67
After the Revolution: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Iran	p. 72
"Help Me Balance the Load": Gender Discrimination in Kenya	p. 78
Women's Human Rights in the United States: An Immigrant's Perspective	p. 82
Women in Israel: Fighting Tradition	p. 89
The Testimony of Women Writers: The Situation of Women in China Today	p. 96
Human Rights as Men's Rights	p. 103
Critiquing Gender-Neutral Treaty Language: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women	p. 114
The Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law	p. 126
State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses	p. 135
The Human Rights of Women in the Family: Issues and Recommendations for Implementation of the Women's Convention	p. 149
The Politics of Gender and Culture in International Human Rights Discourse	p. 167
Cultural Particularism as a Bar to Women's Rights: Reflections on the Middle Eastern Experience	p. 176
Popularizing Women's Human Rights at the Local Level: A Grassroots Methodology for Setting the International Agenda	p. 189
Gendered War Crimes: Reconceptualizing Rape in Time of War	p. 197
AIDS and Gender Violence: the Enslavement of Burmese Women in the Thai Sex Industry	p. 215
Female Genital Mutilation	p. 224
Freedom Close to Home: The Impact of Violence Against Women on Reproductive Rights	p. 238
International Human Rights and Women's Reproductive Health	p. 256
Women's Access to Productive Resources: The Need for Legal Instruments to Protect Women's Development Rights	p. 279
Contextualizing Gender and Labor: Class, Ethnicity, and Global Politics in the Yemeni Socio-Economy	p. 289
Women's Rights and the Right to Development	p. 301
Women and the Word: The Silencing of the Feminine	p. 317
Discrimination and the Tolerance of Difference: International Lesbian Human Rights	p. 324
Human Rights for Refugee and Displaced Women	p. 335
Where in the World is There Safety for Me?: Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution	p. 345
Conclusion	p. 356
Contributors	p. 360
Index	p. 367
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