The Unfinished Revolution : Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights /

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The Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, including in the Middle East where the Arab Spring raised high hopes, but the political revolutions are so far insufficient to guarantee progress. Around the world, women and girls are traffi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Worden, Minky (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2012]
Edición:A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women's rights.
Sexism.
Anti-feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A historic moment for women's rights / Christiane Amanpour
  • Revolutions and rights / Minky Worden
  • The shoulders we stand on : Eleanor Roosevelt and roots of the women's rights revolution / Ellen Chesler
  • How women's rights became recognized as human rights / Charlotte Bunch
  • Technology's quiet revolution for women / Isobel Coleman
  • Islamic law and the revolution against women / Shirin Ebadi
  • A civil society-led revolution? Promoting civil society and women's rights in the Middle East / Sussan Tahmasebi
  • After the Arab Spring, mobilizing for change in Egypt / Esraa Abdel Fattah with Sarah J. Robbins
  • Women in Iraq : losing ground / Samer Muscati
  • Saudi women's struggle / Christoph Wilcke
  • Devastating remnants of war : the impact of armed conflict on women and girls / Jody Williams
  • Under siege in Somalia / Dr. Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins
  • Confronting rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Anneke Van Woudenberg
  • "I was sold twice" : harmful traditional practices in Afghanistan / Georgette Gagnon
  • Letters in the night : closing space for women and girls in Afghanistan / Rachel Reid
  • Unequal in Africa : how property rights can empower women / Janet Walsh
  • Cleaning house : the growing movement for domestic workers' rights / Nisha Varia
  • Ending trafficking of women and girls / Mark P. Lagon
  • Do no harm : "post- trafficking" abuses / Elaine Pearson
  • A needed revolution : testing rape kits and US justice / Sarah Tofte
  • Violence against immigrant women in the United States / Meghan Rhoad
  • Behind closed doors : domestic violence in Europe / Gauri van Gulik
  • Maternal mortality : ending needless deaths in childbirth / Aruna Kashyap
  • Lasting wounds : female genital mutilation / Nadya Khalife
  • Fistula : giving birth and living death in Africa / Agnes Odhiambo
  • Fatal consequences : women, abortion, and power in Latin America / Marianne Mollmann
  • Claiming women's rights in China / Sharon K. Hom
  • A long march for women's rights in China / Sheridan Prasso
  • Girls not brides / Graça Machel and Mary Robinson
  • Damned if you do, damned if you don't : religious dress and women's rights / Judith Sunderland
  • Funding an unfinished revolution / Gara LaMarche
  • The challenge of changing the world for women / Liesl Gerntholtz
  • The revolution continues / Dorothy Q. Thomas.

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