| 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. |
Paperback
Status
Available
Edition
First
Edition
ISBN
9780745637006
ISBN10
0745637000
Publication Dates ROW:
Sep 2009
Publication Dates US:
Dec 2009
Publication Dates Aus & NZ:
Nov 2009
Format
229 x 152 mm
,
6 x 9 in
Pages
224
pages
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"Taking up the thorny issue of transnational feminist advocacy in the context of universal human rights protection, with all its visible failures, Niamh Reilly presents it as a case study in this well-grounded, thoroughly researched and timely book."
Times Higher Education "Reilly has made a major substantive contribution to the fields of both gender and human rights with this book. Women's Human Rights records in rich detail and insightfully analyzes thr origins and progress of the global movement for the human rights of women over the past three decades. Notable for its breadth of scope, lucid writing style, and principled argument for continued advocacy to realise this unfinished agenda, this book is a must-read for all concerned with the future of women's rights in the 21st century."
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
"Excellently researched, incisive and interesting. No contemporary account of the feminist movement and its project on women's human rights is complete without it."
Norani Othman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
"Reilly has written an excellent and important book. Written in a clear and accessible way, the books deals with complex theoretical and political issues that need to be understood by anyone who attempts to understand contemporary issues of women and feminism in a variety of 'local' settings throughout the world today."
Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London
Chapter 1 -- Theorising transnational feminist advocacy in a globalising age
Chapter 2 -- Human Rights, Gender and Contested Meanings
Chapter 3 -- Women's Human Rights as Equality and Non-
Discrimination
Chapter 4 -- Violence against Women and Reproductive and Sexual Health as Human Rights Issues
Chapter 5 -- Women's Human Rights in Conflict and Post-conflict Transformation
Chapter 6 -- Development, Globalisation and Women's Human Rights
Chapter 7 -- Fundamentalisms and Women's Human Rights
Niamh Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
