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Women's human rights : seeking gender justice in a globalizing age /

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women's human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement and exposes h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reilly, Niamh
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights.
Human rights advocacy > International cooperation.
Women's rights > History.
Women (International law)
Women's Rights
Femmes > Droits.
Défense des droits de l'homme > Coopération internationale.
Femmes > Droits > Histoire.
Femmes (Droit international)
86.81 human rights.
Mensenrechten.
Vrouwen.
Jämställdhet > rättslig ställning > internationell rätt.
Mänskliga rättigheter.
Könsdiskriminering.
Human rights.
Women.
Gender.
Sexual discrimination.
Equality.
Kvinnors rättigheter.
History.
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Summary:Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women's human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realization of human rights in women's lives everywhere. -- Publisher description.
Physical Description:xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-193) and index.
ISBN:9780745636993
0745636993
9780745637006
0745637000