Women's Human Rights

by Niamh Reilly

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement liberal, radical, third world and cosmopolitan and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in womens lives everywhere. The book traces the evolution of the womens human rights movement through an examination of its key issues, debates, and practical interventions in international law and policy arenas. This includes efforts to: Ultimately, Women's Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottom-up, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women's lives.

Genres: Feminism

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2008

Reviews

[Amanda Irving · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides a comprehensive overview of women's history in the 20th century from the United Nations system. I am currently taking an online course called "International Women's Health and Human Rights" and it reinforces some of the important concepts from the course, such as CEDAW, VAW, and the different international human rights instruments.