Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work, and Human Rights

by Marilyn Waring

Marilyn Waring probes the 'world behind the mask' in these three remarkable essays on women in politics, economics and work, and human rights. First, she pulls away the masks that women who are elected to parliamentary office are forced to wear. How do we women find ourselves trapped in the institution's games? How does that affect our ability to make progress on issues of primary importance to us? What does that do to our self-image? Can we even afford to be aware of this? The second essay continues Waring's powerful writing on economics and the concept of work. She updates the international situation described in her bestseller Counting for Nothing. Based on her project experience with the United Nations, she exposes the gap between rhetoric and you wash your this is work; you wash your this is welfare... it has no value. The last essay unmasks the rhetoric of human rights. Waring shows how nation states exploit United Nations conventions, while also explaining the opportunities the conventions provide for political action.

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism

205 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Marilyn Joy Waring, CNZM (born 7 October 1952), is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, a development consultant and United Nations expert, an author and an academic, known as a principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics.

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Reviews

[Fernanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I situate women in their own reality. We are, universally, half of humankind. We are guaranteed equal rights to participate in political and civil life. Nowhere do we experience this equality in reality.

[anique · Rating 3 out of 5]

marilyn waring is my hero.