Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice / edited by John Idriss Lahai, Khanyisela Moyo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lahai, John Idriss, Editor.

Moyo, Khanyisela, Editor.

Series:

Crossing Boundaries of Gender and Politics in the Global South, 2946-4862

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity politics.

Economic development.

Human rights.

Political planning.

Political science.

Politics and Gender.

Development Studies.

Human Rights.

Public Policy.

Governance and Government.

Local Subjects:

Politics and Gender.

Development Studies.

Human Rights.

Public Policy.

Governance and Government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIX, 272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women's place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women's rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women's groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces.

Contents:

1. Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

2. Feminism during Social and Political Repression in Egypt: Making or Breaking Resistance Through Legal Activism

3. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making In Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice

4. Civil Society and the Regulation of Laws Against Gender Violence in Timor-Leste

5. Addressing Violence Against Women Through Legislative Reform In States Transitioning From The Arab Spring

6. Human Rights Frameworks and Women's Rights In Post-Transitional Justice Sierra Leone

7. Engendering Justice: The Promotion of Women in Post-Conflict and Post-Transitional Criminal Justice Institutions

8. Justice and Reparations Policies in Peru and Argentine: Towards The De-legitimization of Sexual Violence

9. Women Between War Scylla and Nationalist Charybdis: Legal Interpretations of Sexual Violence in Countries of Former Yugoslavia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9783319542027

3319542028