Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women's status and CEDAW -- Equality doctrines and gender discrimination : the evolving jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court -- The interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR and the Human Rights Committee's evolving equal protection doctrine -- Conflicting human rights under international law : freedom of religion versus women's equality rights -- Enforcing women's international human rights under regional treaties : the American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Enforcing women's international human rights under regional treaties : the (European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- Economic empowerment and employment discrimination : Europe and the United States compared -- The special treatment versus equal treatment debate -- CEDAW in practice -- Enforcing women's international rights at home : international law in domestic courts -- Strategies to combat domestic violence -- Strategies for ending female genital mutilation and footbinding : western imperialism or women's human rights? -- Gender and polygyny : religion, culture, and equality in marriage -- Women's reproductive rights.

"Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them their most fundamental freedoms. It also provides present and future lawyers the legal tools for change, demonstrating how human rights treaties can be used to obtain new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination with respect to employment, land ownership, inheritance, subordination in marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, and the denial of reproductive rights." "Ross examines international and regional human rights treaties in depth, including treaty language and the jurisprudence and general interpretive guidelines developed by human rights bodies. Readers will understand how to help bring about legislation, court decisions, and executive action that protect women from human rights violations."--BOOK JACKET.