Women's Rights: A Human Rights Quarterly Reader

by Bert B. Lockwood (Editor)

Overview

This interdisciplinary collection from the Human Rights Quarterly brings together in a single volume nineteen of the most compelling articles written on women's human rights issues. For the past twenty-five years, Human Rights Quarterly has been a leading publisher of important work in human rights research, exploring the fundamental nature of human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By providing decision makers with insight into complex human rights issues, the journal helps to define national and international human rights policy.

This special issue focuses specifically on the challenges that women face and the efforts by individuals and organizations alike to ensure the protection of women under international law. The articles are organized into five sections that discuss the history and evolution of women's human rights, religion, violence, economic rights, and reproductive rights. The essays address such topics as the rights of Middle Eastern women, rape camps in the former Yugoslavia, and abortion law in Ireland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801883736
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	07/31/2006
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.69(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bert B. Lockwood is Editor-in-Chief of Human Rights Quarterly and a professor of law and Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: History and Perspectives
Chapter 1. Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights
Chapter 2. Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights
Chapter 3. Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective
Chapter 4. The Gender of Jus Cogens
Chapter 5. Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human Rights Discourse
Part II: Religion, Culture, and Women's Human Rights
Chapter 6. The Human Rights of Middle Eastern and Muslim Women: A Project for the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 7. Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary Injustice: Widows in African Societies
Chapter 8. Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work
Part III: Violence and Women
Chapter 9. Women's Voices, Women's Pain
Chapter 10. Women, War, and Rape: Challenges Facing the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Chapter 11. Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing: Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to Rape Victims in the Former Yugoslavia
Chapter 12. Surfacing Children: Limitations of Genocidal Rape Discourse
Chapter 13. Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights the Protection from Violence
Chapter 14. Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported: Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the Prosecution of Traffickers
Part IV: Economic Rights
Chapter 15. Measuring Women's Economic and Social Rights Achievement
Chapter 16. The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: A Governance and Human Rights Agenda
Part V: Reproductive Rights
Chapter 17. Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion Law Reform
Chapter 18. Debating Reproductive Rights in Ireland
Chapter 19. China to CEDAW: An Update on Population Policy
Appendix: Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
List of Contributors