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Women's Rights A Global View
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Lynn Walter
Book Code: GR0890
ISBN: 0-313-30890-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30890-1
288 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 10/30/2000
List Price: $66.95 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The revealing chronologies presented in Women's Rights trace reform discourses to unlikely periods, champions, and domains....The issues and strategies prioritized by the groups of women discussed in the book are telling about their common grounds and points of departures. The book is further instructive about skillful initiatives engineered by women to collaborate across their differences and to bridge their pertinent interests.
    —SIGNS     Autumn 2005
  • [s]erves as a one-stop source....Recommended for high schools.
    —Blanche Woolls & David Loertscher (GaleGroup.com)     April 2001
  • This volume delivers a wealth of detail about the status of women by using case studies from five continents....An excellent addition for the collection that supports women's studies or multicultural themes. Recommended.
    —The Book Report     .
Description: Are women fighting over the same issues and for the same rights all around the world? What are the gains that have been made for women in different cultures over the past 200 years? Students will find answers to these and similar questions in this unique resource of fifteen case studies exploring the problems surrounding the fight for women's rights in different countries, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe. The history, the public perceptions, contemporary problems, the future of women's rights, and the roles of activists concerning these rights are examined. The detailed explorations provide readers with the opportunity to discover the different cultural attitudes toward women. In order to facilitate comparisons, each chapter follows a similar outcome. The countries were chosen to represent every region of the world and to provide as broad a picture as possible of the issues presented by women's struggles for equality. Each case study asks how national, cultural, class, racial, and religious differences have influenced women's rights. These different views of ways in which women have sought their rights around the world will help students to understand the fight for women's rights in a broad sense as a social issue that affects all of humanity.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface by Lynn Walter
  • Introduction by Lynn Walter
  • Argentina: The Long Road to Women's Rights by Marysa Navarro
  • Bolivia: Women's Rights, the International Women's Convention, and State Compliance by Gratzia Vilarroel Smeall
  • China: First the Problem of Rights and Law by Sharon K. Hom
  • Cuba: The Search for Women's Rights in Private and Public Life by Araceli Alonso
  • Denmark: Women's Rights and Women's Welfare by Lynn Walter
  • Egypt: Multiple Perspectives on Women's Rights by Bahira Sherif
  • The European Union: Women's Rights in the European Union by Madeleine Shea
  • India: Women's Movements from Nationalism to Sustainable Development by Manisha Desai
  • Iran: Emerging Feminist Voices by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
  • Israel: The Myth of Gender Equality by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias
  • Japan: Democracy In A Confucian-Based Society by Linda White
  • Nigeria: Women Building on the Past by Victoria B. Tashjian
  • Ojibwe Women of the Western Great Lakes by Lisa M. Poupart
  • United States: The Great Work Before Us by Cheryl Toronto Kalny
  • Zimbabwe: Women's Rights and African Custom by Sita Ranchod-Nilsson
  • Appendices
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-027632
LCC Class: HQ1236
Dewey Class: 305
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