Human Rights and Gender Politics : Asia-Pacific Perspectives.

By: Hilsdon, Anne-MarieContributor(s): Macintyre, Martha | Mackie, Vera | Stivens, MailaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific StudiesPublisher: Richmond : Routledge, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203645413Subject(s): Human rights -- Asia | Human rights -- Pacific Area | Women -- Asia -- Social conditions | Women -- Pacific Area -- Social conditions | Women's rights -- Asia | Women's rights -- Pacific AreaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Rights and Gender Politics : Asia-Pacific PerspectivesDDC classification: 323.34 LOC classification: JC599.A78 -- H825 2000ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Human Rights and Gender Politics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific -- 2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue -- 3 The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India -- 4 Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China -- 5 The human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia -- 6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?: women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu -- 7 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rights -- 8 The Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore -- 9 Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights -- 10 The emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights -- Index.
Summary: In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Cover -- Human Rights and Gender Politics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific -- 2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse: the emergence of the military prostitution issue -- 3 The state and the women's movement: instabilities in the discourse of 'rights' in India -- 4 Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China -- 5 The human rights of gendered citizens: notes from Indonesia -- 6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?: women's rights, human rights, and domestic violence in Vanuatu -- 7 'Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!': Melanesian women and human rights -- 8 The Contemplacion fiasco: the hanging of a Filipino domestic worker in Singapore -- 9 Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora: globalization and human rights -- 10 The emergence of 'modern' gay identities and the question of human rights -- Index.

In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide. This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

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