Women, Gender, and Human Rights

A Global Perspective

Author: Marjorie Agosín
ISBN: 9780813529837

"This anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for women's human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are fully protected and realized."-William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, USA "The devastating commonalities and startling differences in women's oppression and activism around the world are keenly explored in this excellent anthology. Agosin's collection provokes a powerful reexamination of the human rights field."-Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University "This moving anthology, masterfully compiled by poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosin, is a must for scholars, students, and human rights workers; it also will captivate the general reader."-Elena O. Nightingale, scholar-in-residence, National Academy of Sciences "Essential reading, Women, Gender, and Human Rights argues forcefully and convincingly that the elimination of gender-based violence and discrimination,

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Political Science / Civil Rights, Political Science / Human Rights, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Politics/Human Rights)