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Women, Gender, and Human Rights : A Global Perspective /

Women and Human Rights is the first collection of essays to encompass a global perspective on women and a wide range of issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the articles were written expressly for this volume by internationally know...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Agosín, Marjorie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Becoming human: the origins and development of women's human rights / Arvonne S. Fraser -- Indivisible or invisible: women's human rights in the public and private sphere / Sheila Dauer -- Women, violence, and the human rights system / Sally Engle Merry -- Mainstreaming a concern for the human rights of women: beyond theory / Felice D. Gaer -- Women's health and human rights / Julie H. Levison and Snadra P. Levison -- The rights of the girl child / Julia Chill and Susan Kilbourne -- Psychocultural factors in the adaptation of immigrant youth: gendered responses / Carola Suárez-Orozco -- Women's rights as human rights: women as agents of social change / Temma Kaplan -- The forgotten minority / Jean Trounstine -- Degrees of separation / Jane Stapleton -- Gender apartheid, cultural relativism, and women's human rights in Muslim societies / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Grassroots organizations and women's human rights: meeting the challenge of the local-global link / Mary Geske and Susan C. Bourque -- "What was she doing there?": women as "legitimate targets" / Barbara Harlow -- How long does exile last? / Agate Nesaule -- Letters of the law: women, human rights, and epistolary literature / Joseph Slaughter and Jennifer Wenzel -- Before the mirror / Christopher Merrill. 
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520 0 |a The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare women's rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. The subordination of indigenous and minority women, ethnic cleansing, and the struggle for reproductive rights are some of the most pressing issues facing women worldwide. 
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