From Cape Town to Kabul.
Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book genera...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Notes: | "First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. |
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Table of Contents:
- Setting the stage : transforming women's lives
- The global legal campaign for women's rights
- Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma
- South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence
- Afghanistan and gender equality
- Reconsidering women's rights
- Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.