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.
Online Access:	Dawsonera Book review (H-Net)

Table of Contents:

Women's human rights advocacy
Human rights, gender and contested meanings
Women's human rights as equality and non-discrimination
Violence and reproductive health as human rights issues
Women's human rights in conflict and post-conflict transformation
Development, globalization and women's human rights
Fundamentalisms and women's human rights
Conclusion.