Niamh Reilly

Gebundenes Buch

Women's Human Rights

Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age

Beschreibung

Womens 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: * Develop global gender equality norms via the UN Womens Convention * Frame violence against women as a human rights issue * Address gender-based crimes in conflict situations, include women in conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction, and challenge new forms of militarism * Highlight the gendered human rights dimensions of widening inequalities in a context of neo-liberal globalisation * Develop human rights responses to anti-feminist fundamentalist movements with a focus on reproductive and sexual rights Ultimately, Womens 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.

Autor

Niamh Reilly is Senior Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780745636993
• ISBN-10: 0745636993
• Artikelnr.: 28251977

Rezensionen

"Essential reading on the ongoing development of a critical humanrights practice."
H-Net

"Taking up the thorny issue of transnational feminist advocacyin the context of universal human rights protection, with all itsvisible failures, Niamh Reilly presents it as a case study in thiswell-grounded, thoroughly researched and timely book."
Times Higher Education

"A book I wish I had written. It is clear, authoritative, andcovers off the main topics on women's international human rights ina way that would engage both an upper-year student new to the areaand a seasoned academic wishing to deepen her ownunderstanding."
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law

"A precious contribution to the scholarly

literature. The majorstrength of the book is its particular focus on an optimistic andapplicable implementation strategy for the development of a moreeffectiv and efficient global women's rights regime."
Political Studies Review

"The way the author combines theory and practice isextraordinary ... This is only possible thanks to the experienceand vision of the author."
Tijdschrift voor Filosofie

"Offers a compelling analysis of the historical shortcomings ofhuman rights and their potential for women's human rights. Reilly'sclear, succinct writing enhances the considerable merits of thislandmark book that is essential for libraries and those committedto human rights and feminist projects."
Choice

"A lucid, informative and persuasive book."
Sex Education"An important historical account of how feminist transnationaladvocacy has sought to challenge pervasive gender discriminatorypractices on the international stage through the criticalreorientation of conventional human rights thinking."
Australian Journal of Political Science

"Niamh Reilly attempts and succeeds in tracing the evolution ofthe women's human rights movement while simultaneously accountingfor how transnational female advocacy has influenced andtransformed the body of international human rights.This bookprovides a thought-provoking and at times inspirational account ofhow transnational female advocacy movements have helped to shapethe context in which many of us work on a daily basis. The mostpoignant argument of this book is that human rights are not astatic set of legal norms, but rather a consensus that iscontinuously debated, developed and elaborated. In my previouscareer as a university lecturer, I would certainly have put thistext on my undergraduate reading lists for International Relationscourses."
Global Policy

"Reilly has made a major substantive contribution to the fieldsof both gender and human rights with this book. Women's HumanRights records in rich detail and insightfully analyzes throrigins and progress of the global movement for the human rights ofwomen over the past three decades. Notable for its breadth ofscope, lucid writing style, and principled argument for continuedadvocacy to realise this unfinished agenda, this book is amust-read for all concerned with the future of women's rights inthe 21st century."
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University

"Excellently researched, incisive and interesting. Nocontemporary account of the feminist movement and its project onwomen's human rights is complete without it."
Norani Othman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

"Reilly has written an excellent and important book. Written ina clear and accessible way, the books deals with complextheoretical and political issues that need to be understood byanyone who attempts to understand contemporary issues of women andfeminism in a variety of 'local' settings throughout the worldtoday."
Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London