Women's rights, human rights :
Women's rights, human rights : international feminist perspectives /
edited by Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper.
- New York : Routledge, 1995.
- 372 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transforming human rights from a feminist perspective / Women's human rights : the emergence of a movement / Women's rights and the United Nations / Violence against women : the Indian perspective / Legacies of invisibility : past silence, present violence against women in the former Yugoslavia / The medium term Philippine development plan toward the year 2000 : Filipino women's issues and perspectives / Women in South Africa and the constitution-making process / After the revolution : violations of women's human rights in Iran / "Help me balance the load" : gender discrimination in Kenya / Women's human rights in the United States : an immigrant's perspective / Women in Israel : fighting tradition / Charlotte Bunch -- Elisabeth Friedman -- Elissavet Stamatopoulou -- Indira Jaising -- Jasmina Kuzmanović -- Liza Largoza-Maza -- Brigitte Mabandla -- Akram Mirhosseini -- Koki Muli -- Ilka Tanya Payan -- Carmel Shalev. The testimony of women writers : the situation of women in China today / Human rights as men's rights / Critiquing gender-neutral treaty language : the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women / The public/private distinction in international human rights law / State discriminatory family law and customary abuses / The human rights of women in the family : issues and recommendations for implementation of the Women's Convention / The politics of gender and culture in international human rights discourse / Cultural pluralism as a bar to women's rights : reflections on the Middle Eastern experience / Popularizing women's human rights at the local level : a grassroots methodology for setting the international agenda / Zhu Hong -- Hilary Charlesworth -- Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Stefanie A. Lindquist -- Donna Sullivan -- Julie Mertus -- Marsha A. Freeman -- Arati Rao -- Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Maria Suarez Toro. Gendered war crimes : reconceptualizing rape in time of war / AIDS and gender violence : the enslavement of Burmese women in the Thai sex industry / Female genital mutilation / Freedom close to home : the impact of violence against women on reproductive rights / International human rights and women's reproductive health / Women's access to productive resources : the need for legal instruments to protect women's development rights / Contextualizing gender and labor : class, ethnicity and global politics in the Yemeni socio-economy / Women's rights and the right to development / Women and the word : the silencing of the feminine / Discrimination and the tolerance of difference : international lesbian human rights / Human rights for refugee and displaced women / Where in the world is there safety for me? : women fleeing gender-based persecution / Rhonda Copelon -- Hnin Hnin Pyne -- Nahid Toubia -- Lori L. Heise -- Rebecca J. Cook -- Nadia H. Youssef -- Huda A. Seif -- Rhoda E. Howard -- Siobhan Dowd -- Julie Dorf and Gloria Careaga Pérez -- Sima Wali -- Pamela Goldberg.
0415909953 (pbk.) 9780415909952 (pbk.)
94015775
GB95-34222
Women's rights
Droits des femmes
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme.
Women --Legal status, laws, etc.
Femmes --Statut juridique, les lois, etc
Feminism.
Féminisme
Women Rights
K644.Z9 / W665
323.3/4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transforming human rights from a feminist perspective / Women's human rights : the emergence of a movement / Women's rights and the United Nations / Violence against women : the Indian perspective / Legacies of invisibility : past silence, present violence against women in the former Yugoslavia / The medium term Philippine development plan toward the year 2000 : Filipino women's issues and perspectives / Women in South Africa and the constitution-making process / After the revolution : violations of women's human rights in Iran / "Help me balance the load" : gender discrimination in Kenya / Women's human rights in the United States : an immigrant's perspective / Women in Israel : fighting tradition / Charlotte Bunch -- Elisabeth Friedman -- Elissavet Stamatopoulou -- Indira Jaising -- Jasmina Kuzmanović -- Liza Largoza-Maza -- Brigitte Mabandla -- Akram Mirhosseini -- Koki Muli -- Ilka Tanya Payan -- Carmel Shalev. The testimony of women writers : the situation of women in China today / Human rights as men's rights / Critiquing gender-neutral treaty language : the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women / The public/private distinction in international human rights law / State discriminatory family law and customary abuses / The human rights of women in the family : issues and recommendations for implementation of the Women's Convention / The politics of gender and culture in international human rights discourse / Cultural pluralism as a bar to women's rights : reflections on the Middle Eastern experience / Popularizing women's human rights at the local level : a grassroots methodology for setting the international agenda / Zhu Hong -- Hilary Charlesworth -- Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Stefanie A. Lindquist -- Donna Sullivan -- Julie Mertus -- Marsha A. Freeman -- Arati Rao -- Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Maria Suarez Toro. Gendered war crimes : reconceptualizing rape in time of war / AIDS and gender violence : the enslavement of Burmese women in the Thai sex industry / Female genital mutilation / Freedom close to home : the impact of violence against women on reproductive rights / International human rights and women's reproductive health / Women's access to productive resources : the need for legal instruments to protect women's development rights / Contextualizing gender and labor : class, ethnicity and global politics in the Yemeni socio-economy / Women's rights and the right to development / Women and the word : the silencing of the feminine / Discrimination and the tolerance of difference : international lesbian human rights / Human rights for refugee and displaced women / Where in the world is there safety for me? : women fleeing gender-based persecution / Rhonda Copelon -- Hnin Hnin Pyne -- Nahid Toubia -- Lori L. Heise -- Rebecca J. Cook -- Nadia H. Youssef -- Huda A. Seif -- Rhoda E. Howard -- Siobhan Dowd -- Julie Dorf and Gloria Careaga Pérez -- Sima Wali -- Pamela Goldberg.
0415909953 (pbk.) 9780415909952 (pbk.)
94015775
GB95-34222
Women's rights
Droits des femmes
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme.
Women --Legal status, laws, etc.
Femmes --Statut juridique, les lois, etc
Feminism.
Féminisme
Women Rights
K644.Z9 / W665
323.3/4