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Women, gender, and human rights : a global perspective
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- Creator
- edited by Marjorie Agosín
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813529820, 0813529824, 9780813529837, 0813529832
- OCLC
- ocm45958082
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Becoming human: the origins and development of women's human rights / Arvonne S. Fraser -- Indivisible or invisible: women's human rights in the public and private sphere / Sheila Dauer -- Women, violence, and the human rights system / Sally Engle Merry -- Mainstreaming a concern for the human rights of women: beyond theory / Felice D. Gaer -- Women's health and human rights / Julie H. Levison and Snadra P. Levison -- The rights of the girl child / Julia Chill and Susan Kilbourne -- Psychocultural factors in the adaptation of immigrant youth: gendered responses / Carola Suárez-Orozco -- Women's rights as human rights: women as agents of social change / Temma Kaplan -- The forgotten minority / Jean Trounstine -- Degrees of separation / Jane Stapleton -- Gender apartheid, cultural relativism, and women's human rights in Muslim societies / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Grassroots organizations and women's human rights: meeting the challenge of the local-global link / Mary Geske and Susan C. Bourque -- "What was she doing there?": women as "legitimate targets" / Barbara Harlow -- How long does exile last? / Agate Nesaule -- Letters of the law: women, human rights, and epistolary literature / Joseph Slaughter and Jennifer Wenzel -- Before the mirror / Christopher Merrill