Gender and rights / edited by Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : asserting rights in the twenty-first century / Carol Sanger -- 1. The problem of rights / Carol Smart -- 2. Alchemy or fool's gold? : assessing feminist doubts about rights / Elizabeth Kiss -- 3. When justice replaces affection : the need for rights / Jeremy Waldron -- 4. Victims in the shadow of the law : a critique of the model of legal protection / Kristin Bumiller -- 5. That we are human, we have rights / Carlos A. Ball -- 6. More than 100 million women are missing / Amartya Sen -- 7. Women and cultural universals / Martha Nussbaum -- 8. Gender, property, and land rights : bridging a critical gap in economic analysis and policy / Bina Agarwal -- 9. Reflections on law in the everyday life of women / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- 10. The "no problem" problem / Deborah I. Rhode -- 11. The right to care / Robin West -- 12. Relational rights and responsibilities : revisioning the family in liberal political theory and law / Martha Minow and Mary Lyndon Shanley -- 13. Group identity and women's rights in family law : the perils of multicultural accommodation / Ayelet Shachar -- 14. Vulnerability by marriage / Susan Moller Okin -- 15. Comparative law and the same-sex marriage debate : a step-by-step approach toward state recognition / William N. Eskridge, Jr. -- 16. Identity within : cultural relativism, minority rights and the empowerment of women / Radhika Coomaraswamy -- 17. Law as a Trojan horse : unintended consequences of rights-based interventions to support battered women / Renee Romkens -- 18. (Mis)identifying culture : Asian women and the "cultural defense" / Leti Volpp -- 19. Give me liberty or give me death : political asylum and the global persecution of lesbians and gay men / Suzanne B. Goldberg -- 20. "Whether from reason or prejudice" : taking money for bodily services / Martha C. Nussbaum -- 21. Dignity or equality? : responses to workplace harassment in European, German, and U.S. law / Susanne Baer -- 22. For the children : trends in international policies and law on sex tourism / Kamala Kempadoo and Ranya Ghuma -- 23. The myths of meritocracy / Deborah L. Rhode -- 24. Imported problems definitions, legal culture and the local dynamics of Israeli abortion politics / Noga Morag-Levine -- 25. The effect of entrenching a bill of rights upon political discourse : feminist demands and sexual violence in Canada / Judy Fudge -- 26. Gender in the post-socialist transition : the abortion debate in Hungary / Susan Gal -- 27. Who are the women? Where are the women? And what difference can they make? Effects of gender parity in French municipal elections / Karen Bird -- 28. Breaking the silence : gender mainstreaming and the composition of the European Court of Justice / Sally J. Kenney.

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