The unfinished revolution : voices from the global fight for women's rights
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- ISBN: 1609803876 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781609803872 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 361 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A historic moment for women's rights / Christiane Amanpour -- Revolutions and rights / Minky Worden. -- A Revolution in Thinking: Women's Rights are Human Rights. The shoulders we stand on: Eleanor Roosevelt and roots of the women's rights revolution / Ellen Chesler ; How women's rights became recognized as human rights / Charlotte Bunch ; Technology's quiet revolution for women / Isobel Coleman. -- Revolutions and Transitions. Islamic law and the revolution and women / Shirin Ebadi ; A civil society-led revolution? Promoting civil society and women's rights in the Middle East / Sussan Tahmasebi ; After the Arab Spring, mobilizing for change in Egypt / Esraa Abdel Fattah with Sarah J. Robbins ; Women in Iraq: losing ground / Samer Muscati ; Saudi women's struggle / Christoph Wilcke. -- Conflict Zones. Devastating remnants of war: the impact of armed conflict on women and girls / Jody Williams ; Under siege in Somalia / Dr. Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins ; Confronting rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Anneke Van Woudenberg ; "I was sold twice": harmful traditional practices in Afghanistan / Georgette Gagnon ; Letters in the night: closing space for women and girls in Afghanistan / Rachel Reid. -- The Economies of Rights: Education, Work, and Property. Unequal in Africa: how property rights can empower women / Janet Walsh ; Cleaning house: the growing movement for domestic workers' rights / Nisha Varia ; Ending trafficking of women and girls / Mark P. Lagon ; Do no harm: "post- trafficking" abuses / Elaine Pearson. -- Violence against Women. A needed revolution: testing rape kits and US justice / Sarah Tofte ; Violence against immigrant women in the United States / Meghan Rhoad ; Behind closed doors: domestic violence in Europe / Gauri van Gulik. -- Women and Health. Maternal mortality: ending needless deaths in childbirth / Aruna Kashyap ; Photo essays: the unfinished revolution in images ; Lasting wounds: female genital mutilation / Nadya Khalife ; Fistula: giving birth and living death in Africa / Agnes Odhiambo ; Fatal consequences: women, abortion, and power in Latin America / Marianne Mollmann. -- Political Constraints and Harmful Traditions. Claiming women's rights in China / Sharon K. Hom -- A long march for women's rights in China / Sheridan Prasso -- Girls not brides / Graca Machel and Mary Robinson -- Damned if you do, damned if you don't: religious dress and women's rights / Judith Sunderland. -- The Next Frontier: a Road Map to Rights. Funding an unfinished revolution / Gara LaMarche ; The challenge of changing the world for women / Liesl Gerntholtz -- The revolution continues / Dorothy Q. Thomas. |
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