Women's Human Rights : Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age, Paperback...

Women's Human Rights : Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age, Paperback by Reilly, Niamh, ISBN 0745637000, ISBN-13 9780745637006, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK<i>Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age</i> explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. <p>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.</p> Th 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: <ul> <li>Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention</li> <li>Frame violence against women as a human rights issue</li> <li>Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism</li> <li>Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation</li> <li>Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights</li> </ul> <p>Ultimately, <i>Women's Human Rights</i> 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.</p>