Beschreibung:
In recent years, the slogan women's rights are human rights has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide.This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
Chapter 1 Introduction, MailaStivens; Chapter 2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse, VeraMackie; Chapter 3 The state and the women's movement, KalpanaRam; Chapter 4 Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China, AntoniaFinnane; Chapter 5 The human rights of gendered citizens, KrishnaSen; Chapter 6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?, MargaretJolly; Chapter 7 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!', MarthaMacintyre; Chapter 8 The Contemplacion fiasco, Anne-MarieHilsdon; Chapter 9 Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora, BerylLanger; Chapter 10 The emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights, DennisAltman; Index;