Table of contents for Women, Gender, and Human Rights by Marjorie Agosin

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

_ I : Theoretical Visions

Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights ARVONNE S. FRASER

Indivisible or Invisible: Women's Human Rights in the Public and Private Sphere SHEILA DAUER

Women, Violence, and the Human Rights System SALLY ENGLE MERRY

Mainstreaming a Concern for the Human Rights of Women: Beyond Theory FELICE D. GAER

_ II : Women and Health

Women's Health and Human Rights JULIE H. LEVISON AND SANDRA P. LEVISON

The Rights of the Girl Child JULIA CHILL AND SUSAN KILBOURNE

Psychocultural Factors in the Adaptation of Immigrant Youth: Gendered Responses CAROLA SUÁREZ-OROZCO

_ III : Women, Activism, and Social Change

Women's Rights as Human Rights: Women as Agents of Social Change TEMMA KAPLAN

The Forgotten Minority JEAN TROUNSTINE

Degrees of Separation JANE STAPLETON

Gender Apartheid, Cultural Relativism, and Women's Human Rights in Muslim Societies MAHNAZ AFKHAMI

Grassroots Organizations and Women's Human Rights: Meeting the Challenge of the Local-Global Link MARY GESKE AND SUSAN C. BOURQUE

_ IV : Women and the Cultures of Displacement

"What Was She Doing There?": Women as "Legitimate Targets" BARBARA HARLOW

How Long Does Exile Last? AGATE NESAULE

Letters of the Law: Women, Human Rights, and Epistolary Literature JOSEPH SLAUGHTER AND JENNIFER WENZEL

Before the Mirror CHRISTOPHER MERRILL

About the Contributors

Index

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