{"product_id":"women-gender-and-human-rights-a-global-perspective-9780813529837","title":"Women Gender and Human Rights  A Global Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a collection of essays encompassing a global perspective on women and a wide range of issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for women's human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are fully protected and realized. -- William F. Schulz * executive director of Amnesty International, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThe Devastating commonalities and startling differences in women's oppression and activism around the world are keenly explored in this excellent anthology. Agosin's collection provokes a powerful reexamination of the humans rights field. -- Jacqueline Bhabha * Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e I. Theoretical Visions\u003cbr\u003e Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights ARVONNE S. FRASER\u003cbr\u003e Indivisible or Invisible: Women's Human Rights in the Public and Private Sphere SHEILA DAUER\u003cbr\u003e Women, Violence, and the Human Rights System SALLY ENGLE MERRY\u003cbr\u003e Mainstreaming a Concern for the Human Rights of Women: Beyond Theory FELICE D. GAER \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e II : Women and Health\u003cbr\u003e Women's Health and Human Rights JULIE H. LEVISON AND SANDRA P. LEVISON\u003cbr\u003e The Rights of the Girl Child JULIA CHILL AND SUSAN KILBOURNE\u003cbr\u003e Psychocultural Factors in the Adaptation of Immigrant Youth: Gendered Responses CAROLA SUÁREZ-OROZCO \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e III : Women, Activism, and Social Change\u003cbr\u003e Women's Rights as Human Rights: Women as Agents of Social Change TEMMA KAPLAN\u003cbr\u003e The Forgotten Minority JEAN TROUNSTINE\u003cbr\u003e Degrees of Separation JANE STAPLETON\u003cbr\u003e Gender Apartheid, Cultural Relativism, and Women's Human Rights in Muslim Societies MAHNAZ AFKHAMI\u003cbr\u003e Grassroots Organizations and Women's Human Rights: Meeting the Challenge of the Local-Global Link MARY GESKE AND SUSAN C. BOURQUE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e IV : Women and the Cultures of Displacement\u003cbr\u003e \"What Was She Doing There?\": Women as \"Legitimate Targets\" BARBARA HARLOW\u003cbr\u003e How Long Does Exile Last? AGATE NESAULE\u003cbr\u003e Letters of the Law: Women, Human Rights, and Epistolary Literature JOSEPH SLAUGHTER AND JENNIFER WENZEL\u003cbr\u003e Before the Mirror CHRISTOPHER MERRILL\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the Editor \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768151802199,"sku":"9780813529837","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813529837.jpg?v=1758716581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-gender-and-human-rights-a-global-perspective-9780813529837","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}