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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
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Pretext
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The Right to Health at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class
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The Rights of Female Children and Adolescents
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Violence Against Women: Invasion of Public/Private Spaces and the Search for Solutions
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"This book provides an important African perspective to the international debate and struggle for women's human rights. It focuses on social, economic and cultural rights of women, within a human rights framework, that has long been biased towards civil and political rights. The contributors' essays will lead to greater understanding of the gender dimensions of the human rights challenges faced by women in Africa, especially in areas dealing with the HIV/AIDS epidemic, religious fundamentalism, violence and the rights of female children and adolescents. The book is essential reading for students and academics in Women's Studies, African Studies and International Studies as well as for human rights activists." - Professor Filomina Chioma Steady, Wellesley College
"A lucid contribution to human rights discourses that focuses on the concrete realities of gender and culture in Africa." - Francoise Lionnet UCLA, author of Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity.
"This is a work of considerable significance in terms of its concerns, scope and approaches. The materials which illuminate key gender perspectives to invigorate human rights interventions clearly demonstrate the unsustainability of the conventional dichotomy between the so-called generations of human rights in a context characterized by the material challenges that confront Africa." - Leslye Obiora, Professor of Law and Founder, Institute for Research on African Women, Children, and Culture (IRAWCC)
About the authors
JOY EZEILO is a Human Rights Lawyer and activist. She is also the Executive Director of Women's Aid Collective.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engendering Human Rights
Book Subtitle: Cultural and Socio-Economic Realities in Africa
Authors: Obioma Nnaemeka, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
Series Title: Comparative Feminist Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04382-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6707-7Published: 11 May 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-04382-5Published: 03 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2752-3209
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3217
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 314
Topics: Gender Studies, African Politics, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, African Culture, International Economics, Sociology, general