ISBN:
9780415561761
,
9780203854457
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 196 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in comparative politics 33
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights : Controversies and challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
DDC:
305.420951
Keywords:
Human rights
;
Citizenship
;
Human rights
;
Citizenship
;
Women's rights
;
Women's rights
;
Citizenship ; China
;
Citizenship ; Scandinavia
;
Human rights ; China
;
Human rights ; Scandinavia
;
Women's rights ; China
;
Women's rights ; Scandinavia
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Examines the ways in which controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality in Asia and Europe, raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Rights and responsibilities in a gendered world: Equality in/between China and the Nordic countries; Part I: Gender equality, citizenship and human rights; Introduction to Part I: Setting the stage; 1 'It is the people who serve the government': Interview with Ai Xiaoming; 2 'Today all the discussions and all the conflicts are about intersectionality': Interview with Tiina Rosenberg; 3 Advancing women's international human rights in China; 4 Gender, diversity and transnational citizenship
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Controversies and challengesIntroduction to Part II: The cases; 5 Speaking out and space-making: The emergence of gay identities and communities in China; 6 Privileged irresponsibility, structural responsibility and moral contradictions among employers in the EU domestic work sector; 7 The safety and health of female migrant workers in China; 8 Globalisation, diaspora politics and gender: Muslims in Sweden; 9 Gender equality and human rights: The significance of ICCPR in China; 10 National implementation of human rights: A threat to 'representative democracy'?; Index
Note:
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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