<DIV>Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. <i>Human Rights</i> brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some o
Gender and Human Rights: Expanding Concepts
โ Scribed by Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 159
- Series
- Elgar Studies in Human Rights
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Gender and its complexities
3. Human rights and gender: the first stage
4. Feminist approaches, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory: their engagement with gender and human rights
5. Human rights and gender: the second stage
6. Successes and challenges: right to be free from violence
7. Successes and challenges: culture and human rights
8. Successes and challenges: family and human rights
9. General conclusions
Index
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