TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rhode,Deborah L.
AU  - Sanger,Carol
TI  - Gender and rights
T2  - The international library of essays on rights
SN  - 0754623572
AV  - HQ1236 .G46125 2005
U1  - 305.42 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Sex role
N1  - 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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