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Gender in human rights and transitional justice / John Idriss Lahai, Khanyisela Moyo, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Crossing boundaries of gender and politics in the Global SouthPublisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resource (xix, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319542027
  • 3319542028
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.01
LOC classification:
  • JC571 .G46 2018eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice -- 2. Feminism during Social and Political Repression in Egypt: Making or Breaking Resistance Through Legal Activism -- 3. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making In Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice -- 4. Civil Society and the Regulation of Laws Against Gender Violence in Timor-Leste -- 5. Addressing Violence Against Women Through Legislative Reform In States Transitioning From The Arab Spring -- 6. Human Rights Frameworks and Women's Rights In Post-Transitional Justice Sierra Leone -- 7. Engendering Justice: The Promotion of Women in Post-Conflict and Post-Transitional Criminal Justice Institutions -- 8. Justice and Reparations Policies in Peru and Argentine: Towards The De-legitimization of Sexual Violence -- 9. Women Between War Scylla and Nationalist Charybdis: Legal Interpretations of Sexual Violence in Countries of Former Yugoslavia.
Summary: This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women's place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women's rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women's groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces
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This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women's place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political institutions impact the lives and experiences of women. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the contributors to this volume theorize and historicize the place of women's rights (and gender), situating it within contemporary country-specific political, legal, socio-cultural and global contexts. Chapters examine the progress and challenges facing women (and women's groups) in transitioning countries: from Peru to Argentina, from Kenya to Sierra Leone, and from Bosnia to Sri Lanka, in a variety of contexts, attending especially to the relationships between local and global forces

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice -- 2. Feminism during Social and Political Repression in Egypt: Making or Breaking Resistance Through Legal Activism -- 3. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making In Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice -- 4. Civil Society and the Regulation of Laws Against Gender Violence in Timor-Leste -- 5. Addressing Violence Against Women Through Legislative Reform In States Transitioning From The Arab Spring -- 6. Human Rights Frameworks and Women's Rights In Post-Transitional Justice Sierra Leone -- 7. Engendering Justice: The Promotion of Women in Post-Conflict and Post-Transitional Criminal Justice Institutions -- 8. Justice and Reparations Policies in Peru and Argentine: Towards The De-legitimization of Sexual Violence -- 9. Women Between War Scylla and Nationalist Charybdis: Legal Interpretations of Sexual Violence in Countries of Former Yugoslavia.

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