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Title Gender justice, development, and rights / edited by Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 492 pages).
Physical Medium monochrome
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Series Oxford studies in democratization
Oxford studies in democratization.
Note Papers presented at an UNRISD workshop held in New York on June 3, 2000 to coincide with the General Assembly Special Session for the Beijing Plus Five Review.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Women's capabilities and social justice / Martha Nussbaum -- Gender justice, human rights, and neo-liberal economic policies / Dane Elson -- Multiculturalism, universalism, and the claims of democracy / Anne Phillips -- Political and social citizenship: an examination of the case of Poland / Jacqueline Heinen and Stéphane Portet -- Engendering the new social citizenship in Chile: NGOs and social provisioning under neo-liberalism / Verónica Schild -- Engendering education: prospects for a rights-based approach to female education deprivation in India / Ramya Subrahmanian -- Encounters between feminism, democracy, and reformism in contemporary Iran / Parvin Paidar -- The "devil's deal": women's political participation and authoritarianism in Peru / Cecilia Blondet -- In and against the party: women's representation and constituency-building in Uganda and South Africa / Anne Marie Goetz and Shireen Hassim -- The politics of gender, ethnicity, and democratization in Malaysia: shifting interests and identities / Maznah Mohamad -- National law and indigenous customary law: the struggle for justice of indigenous women in Chiapas, Mexico / R. Aída Hernández Castillo -- The politics of women's rights and cultural diversity in Uganda / Aili Mari Tripp.
Summary This text examines contemporary issues such as neoliberal policies, democracy and multiculturalism, analyzing them from a gender perspective. It examines how liberal rights and ideas of democracy and justice have been absorbed into the political agendas of women's movements.
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Subject Women's rights -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Women's rights.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Women's rights -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Developing countries.
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Women.
Social conditions.
Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Economic conditions.
Developing countries -- Social policy -- Congresses.
Social policy.
Social justice -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Social justice.
GENDER EQUALITY.
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT.
FEMINISM.
CULTURAL PLURALISM.
DEMOCRACY.
CASE STUDIES.
POLAND.
CHILE.
WOMEN'S EDUCATION.
INDIA.
DEMOCRATIZATION.
IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF)
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION.
PERU.
SOUTH AFRICA.
UGANDA.
MALAYSIA.
AMERINDIANS.
MEXICO.
Topical Term Sociology (Development)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Molyneux, Maxine.
Razavi, Shahra.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
Oxford University Press.
Other Form: Print version: Gender justice, development, and rights. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0199256446 9780199256440 (DLC) 2002027769 (OCoLC)50192161
ISBN 0199256454
9780199256457
9780191531361 (electronic book)
0191531367 (electronic book)
0199256446 (hardback)
9780199256440