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Additional authors

1. Peters, Julie Stone.
2. Wolper, Andrea.

Description

1. 372 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Under democracy and dictatorship, in times of war and times of peace, women's human rights are violated daily and often systematically. Women may be denied the right to vote or hold office. They may be subjected to rape and sexual abuse by soldiers, police, employers, family members. They may not be free to choose when or whom to marry, or how many children to have and when to have them. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." Yet women's freedom, dignity and equality are persistently compromised by law and by custom in ways that men's are not. The mere extension of existing human rights protection to women is insufficient: women's rights must be understood as human rights. Women's Rights, Human Rights includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's human rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades-- and the concomitant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. The volume addresses such topics as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights. Women's Rights, Human Rights provides original and much-needed perspectives that will take the crucial issue of women's human rights through the nineties and beyond while articulating new agendas for dealing with them.

Subject

1. Women's rights
2. Human rights
3. Women > Legal status, laws, etc
4. Feminism
5. feminism
6. Feminism
7. Human rights
8. Women's rights
9. Rechtssociologie
10. Mensenrechten
11. Grondrechten
12. Vrouwen
13. Feminisme
14. women
15. womens rights
16. human rights
17. violation
18. sex discrimination
19. violence
20. equal rights
21. sexual division of labour
22. birth control
23. abortion
24. traditional culture
25. sexual harassment
26. refugee
27. prostitution
28. marriage
29. medical care
30. illiteracy
31. womens empowerment
32. international law
33. family law
34. application
35. role of UN
36. femmes
37. droits de la femme
38. droits de l'homme
39. discrimination fondée sur le sexe
40. droits égaux
41. division du travail basée sur le sexe
42. régulation des naissances
43. avortement
44. culture traditionnelle
45. harcèlement sexuel
46. réfugié
47. mariage
48. soins médicaux
49. analphabétisme
50. autonomisation des femmes
51. droit international
52. droit de la famille
53. rôle de l'ONU
54. mujeres
55. derechos de la mujer
56. derechos humanos
57. violación
58. discriminación por razones de sexo
59. violencia
60. igualdad de derechos
61. división del trabajo por sexo
62. control de la natalidad
63. aborto
64. cultura tradicional
65. acoso sexual
66. refugiado
67. prostitución
68. matrimonio
69. asistencia médica
70. analfabetismo
71. potenciación de las mujeres
72. derecho internacional
73. derecho de familia
74. aplicación
75. papel de la ONU
76. Africa south of Sahara
77. Bosnia and Herzegovina
78. Central America
79. China
80. Croatia
81. India
82. Iran, Islamic Republic
83. Israel
84. Afrique au sud du Sahara
85. Amérique centrale
86. Bosnie-Herzégovine
87. Chine
88. Croatie
89. Inde
90. Iran, République islamique
91. Israël
92. Africa al sur del Sahara
93. América Central
94. Bosnia y Herzegovina
95. Croacia
96. Irán, República Islámica

Genre/Form

1. conference paper.
2. comment.
3. document de conférence.
4. commentaire.
5. documento de conferencia.
6. comentario.

Contents

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

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.