From Cape Town to Kabul : rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights /
Andrews, Penelope,
From Cape Town to Kabul : rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights / Penelope Andrews. - 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213) and index.
Setting the stage : transforming women's lives -- The global legal campaign for women's rights -- Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma -- South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence -- Afghanistan and gender equality -- Reconsidering women's rights -- Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.
Open Access
Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.
9780754699781 0754699781 9781409472407 140947240X 9781283705547 1283705540
401804 MIL
Women's rights--South Africa.
Women's rights--Afghanistan.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--South Africa.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Afghanistan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Afghanistan.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
K3243 / .A95 2012eb
323.3/4
From Cape Town to Kabul : rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights / Penelope Andrews. - 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213) and index.
Setting the stage : transforming women's lives -- The global legal campaign for women's rights -- Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma -- South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence -- Afghanistan and gender equality -- Reconsidering women's rights -- Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.
Open Access
Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.
9780754699781 0754699781 9781409472407 140947240X 9781283705547 1283705540
401804 MIL
Women's rights--South Africa.
Women's rights--Afghanistan.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--South Africa.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--Afghanistan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Human Rights.
Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Afghanistan.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
K3243 / .A95 2012eb
323.3/4