Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)

Molyneux, Maxine

ISBN 10: 033394948X / ISBN 13: 9780333949481

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033394948X
• ISBN 13: 9780333949481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.

About the Author

ELIZABETH FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Barnard College, Columbia University JASMINE GIDEON Researcher of Socio-Economic and Gender Issues, University of Manchester MALA N. HTUN Assistant Professor of Political Science, New School University MARK P. JONES Department of Political Science, Michigan State University NIKI JOHNSON Researcher, Institute de Ciencia Politica, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay FIONA MACAULAY Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London SARAH RADCLIFFE Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge VIRGINIA VARGAS Member of the Peruvian NGO Centro de Mujeres: Flora Tristán CERI WILLMOTT Freelance Consultant, Social Development