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Challenges of women's activism and human rights in Africa / edited by Diana Fox and Naima Hasci.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: Eng Series: Women's studies (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 20.Publication details: Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.Description: v, 286 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 077347885X
  • 088946118X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Challenges of women's activism and human rights in Africa.DDC classification:
  • 305.42/096 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5 .A35 C53
Contents:
Debates and challenges: relativism, universalism and beyond -- Anthropology and women's human rights: perspectives on relativism and universality -- Women's rights as human rights: an ontological grounding -- The poverty of relativism: comment on Fox and Linsenbard -- Somali refugee women's rights in Kenya: the gap between policy and practice -- Cultural approaches to human rights in Africa: looking for rights in principle and practice -- Human rights struggles in context -- An historical overview of the women's rights movement in America: does it have a meaning for Africa? -- "To develop our listening capacity to be sure that we hear everything": sorting out voices on women's rights in Morocco -- Strategies for change: women and politics in Eritrea and South Africa -- Women in Eritrea's alternative development -- Women's health and human rights in Uganda: to be or not to be, that is the question!
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Debates and challenges: relativism, universalism and beyond -- Anthropology and women's human rights: perspectives on relativism and universality -- Women's rights as human rights: an ontological grounding -- The poverty of relativism: comment on Fox and Linsenbard -- Somali refugee women's rights in Kenya: the gap between policy and practice -- Cultural approaches to human rights in Africa: looking for rights in principle and practice -- Human rights struggles in context -- An historical overview of the women's rights movement in America: does it have a meaning for Africa? -- "To develop our listening capacity to be sure that we hear everything": sorting out voices on women's rights in Morocco -- Strategies for change: women and politics in Eritrea and South Africa -- Women in Eritrea's alternative development -- Women's health and human rights in Uganda: to be or not to be, that is the question!

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