Women's Human Rights : : The International and Comparative Law Casebook /

Women's Human Rights : : The International and Comparative Law Casebook / / Susan Deller Ross.

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According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights...

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Ross, Susan Deller,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2008
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (704 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Summary of Contents
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Using This Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Women's Status and CEDAW
  • Chapter 2. Equality Doctrines and Gender Discrimination: The Evolving Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Chapter 3. The Interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR; and the Human Rights Committee's Evolving Equal Protection Doctrine
  • Chapter 4. Conflicting Human Rights Under lntemational Law: Freedom of Religion Versus Women's Equality Rights
  • Chapter 5. Enforcing Women's Intemational Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • Chapter 6. Enforcing Women's Intemational Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  • Chapter 7. Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared
  • Chapter 8. The Special Treatment Versus Equal Treatment Debate
  • Chapter 9. CEDAW in Practice
  • Chapter 10. Enforcing Women's International Rights at Home: International Law in Domestic Courts
  • Chapter 11. Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence
  • Chapter 12. Strategies for Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Footbinding: Western Imperialism or Women's Human Rights?
  • Chapter 13. Gender and Polygyny-Religion, Culture, and Equality in Marriage
  • Chapter 14. Women's Reproductive Rights
  • Table of Cases
  • Glossary
  • Acronyms and Short Forms
  • Credits and Permissions
  • Index

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