Confronting global gender justice : women's lives, human rights / Debra Bergoffen. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergoffen, Debra B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights.

Human rights.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Confronting Global Gender Justice contains a unique, interdisciplinary collection of essays that address some of the most complex and demanding challenges facing theorists, activists, analysts, and educators engaged in the tasks of defining and researching women's rights as human rights and fighting to make these rights realities in women's lives. With thematic sections on Complicating Discourses of Victimhood, Interrogating Practices of Representation, Mobilizing Strategies of Engagement, and Crossing Legal Landscapes, this volume offers both specific case studies and more

Contents:

pt. 1. Complicating the discourses of victimhood

pt. 2. Interrogating practices of representation

pt. 3. Mobilizing strategies of engagement

pt. 4. Crossing legal landscapes

pt. 5. Confronting global gender justice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-87871-8

1-283-04316-5

1-136-87872-6

0-203-83859-9

9786613043160

9780203838594

OCLC:

704275070