Gender and culture at the limit of rights /
In this interdisciplinary, international collection of original essays, distinguished scholars, lawyers, and activists probe the complex relationship between gender, culture, and rights. The authors offer thoughtful, provocative case studies to suggest that the power of women's rights is also t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Images and interventions
- pt. II. Travels and translations
- pt. III. Mobilizations and mediations.
- Introduction: gender and culture at the limits of rights / Dorothy L. Hodgson
- Gender, history, and human rights / Pamela Scully
- Between law and culture: contemplating rights for women in Zanzibar / Salma Maoulidi
- A clash of cultures: women, domestic violence, and law in the United States / Sally F. Goldfarb
- Making women's human rights in the vernacular: navigating the culture/rights divide / Peggy Levitt and Sally Engle Merry
- The active social life of "Muslim women's rights" / Lila Abu-Lughod
- How not to be a machu qari (old man): human rights, machismo, and military nostalgia in Peru's Andes / Caroline Yezer
- "These are not our priorities": Maasai women, human rights, and the problem of culture / Dorothy L. Hodgson
- The rights to speak and to be heard: women's interpretations of rights discourses in the Oaxaca Social Movement / Lynn Stephen
- Muslim women, rights discourse, and the media in Kenya / Ousseina D. Alidou
- Fighting for fatherhood and family: immigrant detainees' struggle for rights / Robyn M. Rodriguez
- Defending women, defending rights, transnational organizing in a culture of human rights / Mary Jane N. Real.
