Women's Studies at York Series

Craske, N.; Molyneux, Maxine

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-12-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333949481

DOI: 10.1057/9781403914118

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 226