Gender and rights /
edited by Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger.
- xxxix, 647 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- The international library of essays on rights .
- International library of essays on rights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : asserting rights in the twenty-first century / The problem of rights / Alchemy or fool's gold? : assessing feminist doubts about rights / When justice replaces affection : the need for rights / Victims in the shadow of the law : a critique of the model of legal protection / That we are human, we have rights / More than 100 million women are missing / Women and cultural universals / Gender, property, and land rights : bridging a critical gap in economic analysis and policy / Reflections on law in the everyday life of women / The "no problem" problem / The right to care / Relational rights and responsibilities : revisioning the family in liberal political theory and law / Group identity and women's rights in family law : the perils of multicultural accommodation / Vulnerability by marriage / Comparative law and the same-sex marriage debate : a step-by-step approach toward state recognition / Identity within : cultural relativism, minority rights and the empowerment of women / Law as a Trojan horse : unintended consequences of rights-based interventions to support battered women / (Mis)identifying culture : Asian women and the "cultural defense" / Give me liberty or give me death : political asylum and the global persecution of lesbians and gay men / "Whether from reason or prejudice" : taking money for bodily services / Dignity or equality? : responses to workplace harassment in European, German, and U.S. law / For the children : trends in international policies and law on sex tourism / The myths of meritocracy / Imported problems definitions, legal culture and the local dynamics of Israeli abortion politics / The effect of entrenching a bill of rights upon political discourse : feminist demands and sexual violence in Canada / Gender in the post-socialist transition : the abortion debate in Hungary / Who are the women? Where are the women? And what difference can they make? Effects of gender parity in French municipal elections / Breaking the silence : gender mainstreaming and the composition of the European Court of Justice / Carol Sanger -- Carol Smart -- Elizabeth Kiss -- Jeremy Waldron -- Kristin Bumiller -- Carlos A. Ball -- Amartya Sen -- Martha Nussbaum -- Bina Agarwal -- Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Deborah I. Rhode -- Robin West -- Martha Minow and Mary Lyndon Shanley -- Ayelet Shachar -- Susan Moller Okin -- William N. Eskridge, Jr. -- Radhika Coomaraswamy -- Renee Romkens -- Leti Volpp -- Suzanne B. Goldberg -- Martha C. Nussbaum -- Susanne Baer -- Kamala Kempadoo and Ranya Ghuma -- Deborah L. Rhode -- Noga Morag-Levine -- Judy Fudge -- Susan Gal -- Karen Bird -- Sally J. Kenney. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.