Engendering human rights : cultural and socioeconomic realities in Africa

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Engendering human rights : cultural and socioeconomic realities in Africa

[edited by] Obioma Nnaemeka and Joy Ngozi Ezeilo

(Comparative feminist studies series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African Diaspora. The individual chapters examine how human rights frameworks and practices differ in various political, economic, social, cultural, racial and gendered contexts througout Africa.

目次

  • Introduction: Context(ure) of Human Rights
  • J.Ezeilo & O.Nnaemeka PART I: THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AT THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER, RACE AND CLASS Apartheid and Health Professional Accountability: Violations of Reproductive Rights of Women
  • J.de Gruchy & L.Baldwin-Ragaven Take Me to the Village: African Women and the Dynamic of Health and Human Rights in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
  • S.Nzenza-Shand The Right to Reproductive Health in South African Constitution - A Real Victory for Women?
  • L.Feris PART II: SITES OF STRUGGLE: THE PERSONAL IN POLITICAL Women, Religion and Postmodernism
  • N.El Saadawi Women from the Maghrib and Sub-Saharan Africa in France: Fighting for Health and Basic Human Rights
  • C.Raissiguier Women's Rights as Human Rights: Re-Writing African Women's (Auto)biography
  • M.Kolawale PART III: THE RIGHTS OF FEMALE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS The Girl-Child in Africa: From Rhetoric to Action - Towards Economic Empowerment
  • U.Ewelukwa Poverty, Adolescent Sexuality and the Shadow of AIDS: A Study of Female Motor Park Workers in Lagos, Nigeria
  • S.Babalola & P.Nwashili Sociocultural Barriers to the Education of Kenyan Girls: Gender Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Secondary Schools
  • K.L.Webster PART IV: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: INVASIONS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES The Impact of Human Rights Discourse on the Traditional Practice of Female Genital Mutilation
  • C.Packer Unveiling the Mask of Privacy: Protecting Survivors of Violence Against Women in Kenya
  • J.Kamau Wife battery Among Workers in a Nigerian University: Prevalence, Nature, and the Rights of Women
  • M.Tiamiyu PART V: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS Female Genital Mutilation: Campaigns in Germany
  • T.Levin Readability of Children's Rights Documents: The LIASSO Experience, N.Osakwe & N.Nwodo

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