Globalizing concern for women's human rights / Diana G. Zoelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zoelle, Diana Grace.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--Government policy--United States.

Women's rights.

Human rights--Government policy--United States.

Human rights.

Human rights--Government policy.

Women's rights--International cooperation.

Women's rights--Government policy.

United States.

Human rights--International cooperation.

United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 169 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2000]

Summary:

The United States is a liberal democratic state founded upon ideals of freedom and equality, thus the history of non-ratification of major international human rights treaties appears to be an anomaly. This book suggests that it is not. Liberal democracy, as it was conceived and has developed in the United States, is a problematic model in the globalization of concern for women' s human rights. This study is not a comparative examination of state exclusion and oppression of women. Neither is it an attempt to distinguish the United States in the larger sense from other Western liberal democratic regimes in its treatment of women. Rather, the study is a gender-sensitive examination of specific dynamics and characteristics inherent to the socio-political, economic, and legal systems of the United States which have precluded incorporation of the rights of women on an equal basis with the rights of men.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Ain't I a Human?": U.S. Civil Rights Legislation as an Inadequate Remedy to Violations of Women's Human Rights 9

Chapter 2 The Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Radical Notions of Human Being? 31

Chapter 3 Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: Reconceiving the Terms of the Discourse 53

Chapter 4 International Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: The Schizophrenic State 73

Chapter 5 The Injustice of Equality: Women, International Human Rights, and Liberal Democracy in America 101

Appendix The International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-164) and index.

ISBN:

0312222858

OCLC:

42736399