Women's Rights: Documents Decoded - Hardcover

Shouse, Aimee D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1610691997 ISBN 13: 9781610691994

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2013

Synopsis

Taking a broad view of the ongoing efforts to attain rights for women, this work provides unique insight into the context of the issues and reveals the range of factors that can influence a particular policy decision.

· Carefully examines the major issues that helped frame women's rights in various key policy areas

· Blends the practical explanations of the government's role in women's rights with the feminist theoretical foundations of the quest for these rights

· Supplies crucial context for all women's rights policy statements, including information about the statements' authors as well as the political dynamics surrounding the issue

· Presents coverage of policy statements that illustrate some of the key players in the attainment of women's rights and uniquely demonstrate the various ways women's rights have been framed across history

· Clearly illustrates the relationship of women's rights issues to fields of study as disparate as business, history, healthcare, law enforcement, and political science, among others

· Includes coverage of some of the major political challenges to women's reproductive rights witnessed in the previous decade

· Considers some of the most difficult and controversial issues related to women's rights, such as the "war on women" and the country's pervasive rape culture

About this title

Book Description

Women's rights have been in a state of flux since our nation's founding.

About the Author

Aimee D. Shouse, PhD, is a professor and department chair in the Department of Women's Studies at Western Illinois University.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1610691997
• ISBN 13: 9781610691994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216