ISBN:
128389789X
,
9781283897891
,
9780812204612
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 300 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gender and culture at the limit of rights
DDC:
305.4'2'09
Keywords:
Women''s rights -- Developing countries
;
Human rights -- Developing countries
;
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
;
Culture
;
Women''s rights
;
Human rights
;
Women -- Social conditions
;
Feminist theory
;
Women's rights History
;
Culture
;
Human rights ; Developing countries
;
Human rights
;
Women ; Developing countries ; Social conditions
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Women's rights ; Developing countries
;
Women's rights
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this interdisciplinary, international collection of original essays, distinguished scholars, lawyers, and activists probe the complex relationship between gender, culture, and rights. The authors offer thoughtful, provocative case studies to suggest that the power of women's rights is also the source of its limits.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights -- PART I. IMAGES AND INTERVENTIONS -- 1. Gender, History, and Human Rights -- 2. Between Law and Culture: Contemplating Rights for Women in Zanzibar -- 3. A Clash of Cultures: Women, Domestic Violence, and Law in the United States -- PART II. TRAVELS AND TRANSLATIONS -- 4. Making Women's Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide -- 5. The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women's Rights" -- 6. How Not to Be a Machu Qari (Old Man): Human Rights, Machismo, and Military Nostalgia in Peru's Andes -- 7. "These Are Not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture -- PART III. MOBILIZATIONS AND MEDIATIONS -- 8. The Rights to Speak and to Be Heard: Women's Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement -- 9. Muslim Women, Rights Discourse, and the Media in Kenya -- 10. Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees' Struggles for Rights -- 11. Defending Women, Defending Rights: Transnational Organizing in a Culture of Human Rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index --Aknowledgments.
