Womens Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age (Polity)

Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 by the American Library Association CHOICE. To see reviews, go to http: www.womenshumanrights.info. Reprint edition from Rawat Publications (Jaipur, India) forthcoming (May 2016).This book 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 ConventionFrame 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 militarismHighlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisationDevelop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights. Ultimately, Womens 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 womens lives.Table of Contents Chapter 1 -- Theorising transnational feminist advocacy in a globalising age Chapter 2 -- Human Rights, Gender and Contested Meanings Chapter 3 -- Womens Human Rights as Equality and Non-Discrimination Chapter 4 -- Violence against Women and Reproductive and Sexual Health as Human Rights Issues Chapter 5 -- Womens Human Rights in Conflict and Post-conflict Transformation Chapter 6 -- Development, Globalisation and Womens Human Rights Chapter 7 -- Fundamentalisms and Womens Human Rights