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Author : Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien,Jennifer Chan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080475022X
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.
Author : Laura A. Hebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000593013
Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking. Building on analyses of domestic servitude, commercial sex, and labor trafficking by military contractors, and grounded in intersectional feminist cosmopolitanism and feminist theorizing on vulnerability, precarity, and ethical interdependence, Laura Hebert makes several interrelated contributions. As she explores how a feminist gender analysis illuminates the structures and norms enabling trafficking, Hebert simultaneously considers the future of feminist rights advocacy. Emphasizing the sociality of human rights, she encourages feminist scholars and activists to look beyond states as the duty-bearers of human rights and the assumption that human rights are made meaningful mainly through the establishment of legal rights at the national level. She challenges the idea that "feminism" can be reduced to advocacy on behalf of women’s rights. She also encourages critical reflection on how divisions associated with feminist politics have impeded opportunities for the building of feminist solidarities across differences aimed at the realization of the human rights of all. Strongly interdisciplinary, Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Author : John Idriss Lahai,Khanyisela Moyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319542027
This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women’s rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women’s groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces
Author : Anne-Marie Hilsdon,Martha Macintyre,Vera Mackie,Maila Stivens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135117870
First Published in 2004. As the new millennium leaves behind the most violent of centuries, human rights activists and international agencies are looking to a new Age of Rights. Feminists have been prominent among those struggling 'from below' to reconstruct human rights: the slogan 'women's rights are human rights' has become a central claim of the global women's movement; feminist theorists have argued for an explicit inclusion of women and gender in human rights tenets; and United Nations forums have become central sites of an energetic new global feminist 'public', providing unprecedented avenues for feminist initiatives and action. It is clear, however, that feminist re-shapings of human rights have been engaged in complex conversations with both human rights claims and with feminist and gender politics in all their many local versions. The contributors to this volume address these complex conversations through a number of case studies within the Asia-Pacific region.
Author : C. Hassentab,S. Ramet,Christine Hassenstab
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137449924
The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societies. The status of women was immediately affected. The contributors to this volume contrast the status of women in the post-socialist societies of the region with their status under socialism.
Author : Robin Redhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135054786
Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the gendered and ethnocentric aspects of violence and human subjectivity in the context of human rights. Using an innovative visual methodology, Redhead shines a new critical light on human rights campaigns in practice. She examines two cases in-depth. First, she shows how Amnesty International depicts women negatively in their 2004 ‘Stop Violence against Women Campaign’, revealing the political implications of how images deny women their agency because violence is gendered. She also analyses the Oka conflict between indigenous people and the Canadian state. She explains how the Canadian state defined the Mohawk people in such a way as to deny their human subjectivity. By looking at how the Mohawk used visual media to communicate their plight beyond state boundaries, she delves into the disjuncture between state sovereignty and human rights. This book is useful for anyone with an interest in human rights campaigns and in the study of political images.
Author : Manon Tremblay,Joanna Everitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030492403
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category of analysis. Its premise is that political actors’ identities frame how Canadian politics is thought, told, and done; in turn, Canadian politics, as a set of ideas, state institutions and decision-making processes, and civil society mobilizations, does and redoes gender. Following the standard structure of mainstream introductory Canadian politics textbooks, this handbook is divided into four sections (ideologies, institutions, civil society, and public policy) each of which contains several chapters on topics commonly taught in Canadian politics classes. The originality of the handbook lies in its approach: each chapter reviews the basics of a given topic from the perspective of gendered/sexualized and other intersectional identities. Such an approach makes the handbook the only one of its kind in Canadian Politics.
Author : Catherine O'Rourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135983697
What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism? What is the impact of transitional justice processes on the human rights of women in states emerging from political violence? Gender Politics in Transitional Justice argues that human rights outcomes for women are determined in the space between international law and local gender politics. The book draws on feminist political science to reveal the key gender dynamics that shape the strategies of local women’s movements in their engagement with transitional justice, and the ultimate success of those strategies, termed ‘the local fit’. Also drawing on feminist doctrinal scholarship in international law, ‘the international frame’ examines the role of international law in defining harms against women in transitional justice and in determining the ‘from’ and ‘to’ of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism. This book locates evolving state practice in gender and transitional justice over the past two decades within the context of the enhanced protection of women’s human rights under international law. Relying on original empirical and legal research in Chile, Northern Ireland and Colombia, the book speaks more broadly to the study of gender politics and international law in transitional justice.
Author : Wendy S. Hesford,Wendy Kozol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813535891
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 : Ratna Kapur
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788112536
Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Yet more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities, has had disempowering and exclusionary effects. Revisiting campaigns for same-sex marriage, violence against women, and Islamic veil bans, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights lays bare how human rights emerge as a project of containment and unfreedom rather than meaningful freedom. Kapur provocatively argues that the futurity of human rights rests in turning away from liberal freedom and towards non-liberal registers of freedom.
Author : Mary K. Meyer,Elisabeth Prügl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847691616
This volume draws together a wide range of exciting new research that looks at the gendered nature of the institutions, practices, and discourses of global governance.
Author : Shashi Motilal,Bijayalaxmi Nanda
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798184240022
Addressing students, teachers and readers in general, the book introduces the concept of human rights and explores ways in which human rights violations impact issues of gender and environment. In this sense it traces the underlying interconnections of key concepts against the backdrop of existing social inequalities of class, caste, gender, race and ethnicity. It delves deep into the impact of globalization on a society which is fraught with inequalities and emphasizes the need to create an equal, non-discriminatory and free world. This is perhaps the first book to incorporate such a broad range of topics all of which have a contemporary social, political and economic relevance. It will encourage students to understand, think and engage with issues and help them formulate their positions on the issues discussed. The book will be an excellent resource not only for students and teachers pursuing the subject but also for policy-makers, NGO workers and general readers who are concerned partners in wanting to create an equal and free world.
Author : Sally Engle Merry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226520759
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.
Author : M. Krook,F. Mackay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230303911
Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.
Author : Anne Sisson Runyan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429842757
Accessible and student-friendly, Global Gender Politics analyzes the gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources that contribute to the global crises of representation, violence, and sustainability. The author emphasizes how hard-won attention to gender and other related inequalities in world aff airs is simultaneously being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms and depoliticized through reducing gender to a binary and a problem-solving tool in global governance. The author examines gendered insecurities produced by the pursuit of international security and gendered injustices in the global political economy and sees promise in transnational struggles for global justice. In this new re-titled edition of a foundational contribution to the fi eld of feminist International Relations, Anne Sisson Runyan continues to examine the challenges of placing inequalities andresisting injustices at the center of global politics scholarship and practice through intersectional and transnational feminist lenses. This more streamlined approach includes more illustrations and discussions have been updated to refl ect current issues. To provide more support to instructors and readers, Global Gender Politics is accompanied by an e-resource, which includes web resources, suggested topics for discussion, and suggested research activities also found in the book.