Screen LibraryGender and culture at the limit of rights /
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 t...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 1 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812204612 |
| Index Number: | HQ1236 |
| CLC: | D441 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights / Chapter 1. Gender, History, and Human Rights / Chapter 2. Between Law and Culture: Contemplating Rights for Women in Zanzibar / Chapter 3. A Clash of Cultures: Women, Domestic Violence, and Law in the United States / Chapter 4. Making Women s Human Rights in the Vernacular: Navigating the Culture/Rights Divide / Chapter 5. The Active Social Life of "Muslim Women s Rights" / Chapter 6. How Not to be a Machu Qari (Old Man): Human Rights, Machismo, and Military Nostalgia in Peru s Andes / Chapter 7. "These Are Not Our Priorities": Maasai Women, Human Rights, and the Problem of Culture / Chapter 8. The Rights to Speak and to Be Heard: Women s Interpretations of Rights Discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Chapter 9. Muslim Women, Rights Discourse, and the Media in Kenya / Chapter 10. Fighting for Fatherhood and Family: Immigrant Detainees Struggles for Rights / Chapter 11. Defending Women, Defending Rights: Transnational Organizing in a Culture of Human Rights / Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |