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From Cape Town to Kabul : rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrews, Penelope
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Subjects:
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > Afghanistan.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > South Africa.
Women's rights > Afghanistan.
Women's rights > South Africa.
Femmes > Droits > Afrique du Sud.
Femmes > Droits > Afghānistān.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation.
Women's rights.
Afghanistan.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : transforming women's lives
  • Reconsidering women's rights
  • 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
  • Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights : conditional interdependence revisited.

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