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Gender justice, development, and rights / edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: Fre Series: Oxford studies in democratizationPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 400 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0199256454
  • 9780199256457
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236 .G4615
Contents:
1. Introduction / Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi -- I. Rethinking Liberal Rights and Universalism -- 2. Women's Capabilities and Social Justice / Martha Nussbaum -- 3. Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Neo-liberal Economic Policies / Diane Elson -- 4. Multiculturalism, Universalism, and the Claims of Democracy / Anne Phillips -- II. Social Sector Restructuring and Social Rights -- 5. Political and Social Citizenship: An Examination of the Case of Poland / Jacqueline Heinen and Stephane Portet -- 6. Engendering the New Social Citizenship in Chile: NGOs and Social Provisioning under Neo-liberalism / Veronica Schild -- 7. Engendering Education: Prospects for a Rights-Based Approach to Female Education Deprivation in India / Ramya Subrahmanian -- III. Democratization and the Politics of Gender -- 8. Encounters between Feminism, Democracy and Reformism in Contemporary Iran / Parvin Paidar -- 9. The 'Devil's Deal': Women's Political Participation and Authoritarianism in Peru / Cecilia Blondet -- 10. In and Against the Party: Women's Representation and Constituency-Building in Uganda and South Africa / Anne Marie Goetz and Shireen Hassim -- IV. Multiculturalisms in Practice -- 11. The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity, and Democratization in Malaysia: Shifting Interests and Identities / Maznah Mohamad -- 12. National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: The Struggle for Justice of Indigenous Women in Chiapas, Mexico / R. Aida Hernandez Castillo -- 13. The Politics of Women's Rights and Cultural Diversity in Uganda / Aili Mari Tripp.
Review: "Gender Justice, Development, and Rights reflects on the significance accorded in international development policy to rights and democracy in the post-Cold War era. Key items on the contemporary policy agenda - neo-liberal economic and social policies, democracy, and multi-culturalism - are addressed here by leading scholars and regional specialists through theoretical reflections and detailed case studies. Together they constitute a collection which casts contemporary liberalism in a distinctive light by applying a gender perspective to the analysis of political and policy processes. Case studies from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East-Central Europe, South and South-East Asia contribute a cross-cultural dimension to the analysis of contemporary liberalism - the dominant value system in the modern world - by examining how it both exists in and is resisted in developing and post-transition societies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi -- I. Rethinking Liberal Rights and Universalism -- 2. Women's Capabilities and Social Justice / Martha Nussbaum -- 3. Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Neo-liberal Economic Policies / Diane Elson -- 4. Multiculturalism, Universalism, and the Claims of Democracy / Anne Phillips -- II. Social Sector Restructuring and Social Rights -- 5. Political and Social Citizenship: An Examination of the Case of Poland / Jacqueline Heinen and Stephane Portet -- 6. Engendering the New Social Citizenship in Chile: NGOs and Social Provisioning under Neo-liberalism / Veronica Schild -- 7. Engendering Education: Prospects for a Rights-Based Approach to Female Education Deprivation in India / Ramya Subrahmanian -- III. Democratization and the Politics of Gender -- 8. Encounters between Feminism, Democracy and Reformism in Contemporary Iran / Parvin Paidar -- 9. The 'Devil's Deal': Women's Political Participation and Authoritarianism in Peru / Cecilia Blondet -- 10. In and Against the Party: Women's Representation and Constituency-Building in Uganda and South Africa / Anne Marie Goetz and Shireen Hassim -- IV. Multiculturalisms in Practice -- 11. The Politics of Gender, Ethnicity, and Democratization in Malaysia: Shifting Interests and Identities / Maznah Mohamad -- 12. National Law and Indigenous Customary Law: The Struggle for Justice of Indigenous Women in Chiapas, Mexico / R. Aida Hernandez Castillo -- 13. The Politics of Women's Rights and Cultural Diversity in Uganda / Aili Mari Tripp.

"Gender Justice, Development, and Rights reflects on the significance accorded in international development policy to rights and democracy in the post-Cold War era. Key items on the contemporary policy agenda - neo-liberal economic and social policies, democracy, and multi-culturalism - are addressed here by leading scholars and regional specialists through theoretical reflections and detailed case studies. Together they constitute a collection which casts contemporary liberalism in a distinctive light by applying a gender perspective to the analysis of political and policy processes. Case studies from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, East-Central Europe, South and South-East Asia contribute a cross-cultural dimension to the analysis of contemporary liberalism - the dominant value system in the modern world - by examining how it both exists in and is resisted in developing and post-transition societies."--BOOK JACKET.

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