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From Cape Town to Kabul.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrews.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights--South Africa.
- Women's rights.
- Women's rights--Afghanistan.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--South Africa.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Routledge 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage : transforming women's lives
- The global legal campaign for women's rights
- Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma
- South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence
- Afghanistan and gender equality
- Reconsidering women's rights
- Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.
- Notes:
- "First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781409472407
- 140947240X
- 9781317132462
- 1317132467
- 9781315583297
- 1315583291
- 9781317132455
- 1317132459
- 9781283705547
- 1283705540
- 9780754699781
- 0754699781
- OCLC:
- 823236773
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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