Gender and culture at the limit of rights /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hodgson, Dorothy Louise
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Series:	Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:	Women's rights > Developing countries. Human rights > Developing countries. Women > Developing countries > Social conditions. Culture. Women's rights. Human rights. Women > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: gender and culture at the limits of rights / Dorothy L. Hodgson
Gender, history, and human rights / Pamela Scully
Between law and culture: contemplating rights for women in Zanzibar / Salma Maoulidi
A clash of cultures: women, domestic violence, and law in the United States / Sally F. Goldfarb
Making women's human rights in the vernacular: navigating the culture/rights divide / Peggy Levitt and Sally Engle Merry
The active social life of "Muslim women's rights" / Lila Abu-Lughod
How not to be a machu qari (old man): human rights, machismo, and military nostalgia in Peru's Andes / Caroline Yezer
"These are not our priorities": Maasi women, human rights, and the problem of culture / Dorothy L. Hodgson
The rights to speak and to be heard: women's interpretations of rights discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Lynn Stephen
Muslim women, rights discourse, and the media in Kenya / Ousseina D. Alidau
Fighting for fatherhood and family: immigrant detainees' struggle for rights / Robyn M. Rodriguez
Defending women, defending rights, transnational organizing in a culture of human rights / Mary Jane N. Real.