Feminist Human Rights

Author : Dana Collins,Sylvanna Falcon,Sharmila Lodhia,Molly Talcott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781317985433

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New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights by Dana Collins,Sylvanna Falcon,Sharmila Lodhia,Molly Talcott Pdf

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and human rights. The scholarly and activist writings that comprise this collection advance both research and critical conversations about feminism and human rights by revealing the transformative potential of a feminist human rights praxis that embraces both critique and collective justice. The editors' method has been to move beyond a wholesale dismissal of human rights so that the book may begin new dialogues that envision transnational, gender and antiracist social justice approaches. This book features work that engages academic critiques of human rights frameworks yet goes further by exploring the potential of human rights activism ‘from below’. These groundbreaking chapters and conversations provide evidence of the persistent challenges and the attendant possibilities inherent in feminist human rights activism and theorizing – they offer this book, underscoring the creative displays of grassroots resistance by women globally and affirming transnational feminist solidarity. This book was published as a special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Author : J. S. Peters,Andrea Wolper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317325482

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Women's Rights, Human Rights by J. S. Peters,Andrea Wolper Pdf

This comprehensive and important volume includes contributions by activists, journalists, lawyers and scholars from twenty-one countries. The essays map the directions the movement for women's rights is taking--and will take in the coming decades--and the concomittant transformation of prevailing notions of rights and issues. They address topics such as the rapes in former Yugoslavia and efforts to see that a War Crimes Tribunal responds; domestic violence; trafficking of women into the sex trade; the persecution of lesbians; female genital mutilation; and reproductive rights.

Author : Wendy S. Hesford,Wendy Kozol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813535891

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Just Advocacy? by Wendy S. Hesford,Wendy Kozol Pdf

Bringing together some of the most respected scholars in the field, including Inderpal Grewal, Leela Fernandes, Leigh Gilmore, Susan Koshy, Patrice McDermott, and Sidonie Smith, Just Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviors.

Author : Alice Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139494854

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Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law by Alice Edwards Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women. However, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under international human rights law. Drawing on feminist theories of international law and human rights, this critical examination of the United Nations' legal approaches to violence against women analyses the merits of strategies which incorporate women's concerns of violence within existing human rights norms such as equality norms, the right to life, and the prohibition against torture. Although feminist strategies of inclusion have been necessary as well as symbolically powerful for women, the book argues that they also carry their own problems and limitations, prevent a more radical transformation of the human rights system, and ultimately reinforce the unequal position of women under international law.

Author : Pascha Bueno-Hansen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252039424

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Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru by Pascha Bueno-Hansen Pdf

In 2001, following a generation of armed conflict and authoritarian rule, the Peruvian state created a Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). Pascha Bueno-Hansen places the TRC, feminist and human rights movements, and related non-governmental organizations within an international and historical context to expose the difficulties in addressing gender-based violence. Her innovative theoretical and methodological framework based on decolonial feminism and a critical engagement with intersectionality facilitates an in-depth examination of the Peruvian transitional justice process based on field studies and archival research. Bueno-Hansen uncovers the colonial mappings and linear temporality underlying transitional justice efforts and illustrates why transitional justice mechanisms must reckon with the societal roots of atrocities, if they are to result in true and lasting social transformation. Original and bold, Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru elucidates the tension between the promise of transitional justice and persistent inequality and impunity.

Author : Ásta,Kim Q. Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190628925

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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy by Ásta,Kim Q. Hall Pdf

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. The editors' introduction and forty-five essays cover feminist critical engagements with philosophy and adjacent scholarly fields, as well as feminist approaches to current debates and crises across the world. Authors cover topics ranging from the ways in which feminist philosophy attends to other systems of oppression, and the gendered, racialized, and classed assumptions embedded in philosophical concepts, to feminist perspectives on prominent subfields of philosophy. The first section contains chapters that explore feminist philosophical engagement with mainstream and marginalized histories and traditions, while the second section parses feminist philosophy's contributions to numerous philosophical subfields, for example metaphysics and bioethics. A third section explores what feminist philosophy can illuminate about crucial moral and political issues of identity, gender, the body, autonomy, prisons, among numerous others. The Handbook concludes with the field's engagement with other theories and movements, including trans studies, queer theory, critical race, theory, postcolonial theory, and decolonial theory. The volume provides a rigorous but accessible resource for students and scholars who are interested in feminist philosophy, and how feminist philosophers situate their work in relation to the philosophical mainstream and other disciplines. Above all it aims to showcase the rich diversity of subject matter, approach, and method among feminist philosophers.

Author : Niamh Reilly
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745654942

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Women's Human Rights by Niamh Reilly Pdf

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention Frame violence against women as a human rights issue Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.

Author : Brigitte Buchhammer, Angela Kallhoff
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912138

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Human Rights by Brigitte Buchhammer, Angela Kallhoff Pdf

In this volume thirteen essays highlight the subject of human rights from different points of view. The guiding questions include the following: Can feminists and gender researchers ground their commitment to greater gender justice in human rights? Is there a single concept of human rights? Do human rights include individual rights or group rights? Are the demands of human rights addressed to institutions or to individuals? Is there an intrinsic moment of Eurocentrism within human rights? Are human rights a moral or legal measure, or somewhere in between? Who is recognized as a human being?

Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201666

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Human Rights of Women by Rebecca J. Cook Pdf

Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.

Author : Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319409221

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Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature by Chielozona Eze Pdf

This book proposes feminist empathy as a model of interpretation in the works of contemporary Anglophone African women writers. The African woman’s body is often portrayed as having been disabled by the patriarchal and sexist structures of society. Returning to their bodies as a point of reference, rather than the postcolonial ideology of empire, contemporaryAfrican women writers demand fairness and equality. By showing how this literature deploys imaginative shifts in perspective with women experiencing unfairness, injustice, or oppression because of their gender, Chielozona Eze argues that by considering feminist empathy, discussions open up about how this literature directly addresses the systems that put them in disadvantaged positions. This book, therefore, engages a new ethical and human rights awareness in African literary and cultural discourses, highlighting the openness to reality that is compatible with African multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and increasingly cosmopolitan communities.

Author : Dr Alana Van Gundy,Dr Amy Baumann-Grau
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472407603

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Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations by Dr Alana Van Gundy,Dr Amy Baumann-Grau Pdf

A rich examination of the neglect and abuses occurring to women in correctional facilities, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations draws upon a wealth of case studies from around the world and class action lawsuits to shed light on ‘covert’ abuse such as sexual or physical abuse, as well as ‘overt’ abuse such as the denial of medical treatment. Adopting a feminist framework, this book offers a comparative evaluation of abuse in domestic and international correctional facilities, demonstrating the extent to which women are at high risk of being sexually abused and re-victimized in the correctional system, where pregnancy and other specific medical and health issues are consistently ignored. Calling attention to the necessity of addressing the gender-specific needs of women who are incarcerated, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations offers a review of current policy, laws, and regulation bearing on the issue, while providing concrete recommendations and policy changes to address abuses. As such it will appeal to sociologists, criminologists, and policymakers concerned with questions of gender, penology, and institutional abuse.

Author : Katherine M. Marino
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469649702

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Feminism for the Americas by Katherine M. Marino Pdf

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism. Six dynamic activists form the heart of this story: from Brazil, Bertha Lutz; from Cuba, Ofelia Domingez Navarro; from Uruguay, Paulina Luisi; from Panama, Clara Gonzalez; from Chile, Marta Vergara; and from the United States, Doris Stevens. This Pan-American network drove a transnational movement that advocated women's suffrage, equal pay for equal work, maternity rights, and broader self-determination. Their painstaking efforts led to the enshrinement of women's rights in the United Nations Charter and the development of a framework for international human rights. But their work also revealed deep divides, with Latin American activists overcoming U.S. presumptions to feminist superiority. As Marino shows, these early fractures continue to influence divisions among today's activists along class, racial, and national lines. Marino's multinational and multilingual research yields a new narrative for the creation of global feminism. The leading women introduced here were forerunners in understanding the power relations at the heart of international affairs. Their drive to enshrine fundamental rights for women, children, and all people of the world stands as a testament to what can be accomplished when global thinking meets local action.

Author : Andrea Cornwall,Maxine Molyneux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317996750

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The Politics of Rights by Andrea Cornwall,Maxine Molyneux Pdf

Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This special issue on feminist perspectives on politics of rights explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with ‘rights work’ in a variety of settings. Articles on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia explore the dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in these diverse locations, and address the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justice. Exploring the intersection of formal rights – whether international human rights conventions, constitutional rights or national legislation – with the everyday realities of women in settings characterized by entrenched gender inequalities and poverty, plural legal systems and cultural norms that can constitute formidable obstacles to realizing rights. The contributors suggest that these sites of struggle can create new possibilities and meanings – and a politics of rights animated by demands for social and gender justice.

Author : Mohini Chatterjee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 8179100774

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Feminism and Women's Human Right by Mohini Chatterjee Pdf

Author : Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien,Jennifer Chan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080475022X

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Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan by Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien,Jennifer Chan Pdf

This book examines the impact of global human rights norms on the development of women's, children's, and minority rights in Japan since the early 1990s.