Human Rights and Gender Politics : Asia-Pacific Perspectives.

Through detailed case studies drawn from the Asia-Pacific region, this text examines the critical issues raised by the embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hilsdon, Anne-Marie
Otros Autores: Macintyre, Martha, Mackie, Vera, Stivens, Maila
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
Temas:
Human rights > Asia.
Human rights > Pacific Area.
Women's rights > Asia.
Women's rights > Pacific Area.
Women > Asia > Social conditions.
Women > Pacific Area > Social conditions.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Asie.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Pacifique, Région du.
Femmes > Droits > Asie.
Femmes > Droits > Pacifique, Région du.
Femmes > Asie > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Pacifique, Région du > Conditions sociales.
Human rights
Women > Social conditions
Women's rights
Asia
Pacific Area
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific; Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue; The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India; Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China; The human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia; Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?: women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu.
  • 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rightsThe Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore; Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights; The emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights; Index.

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