Subtitle: A Global Perspective
Author: Edited by Marjorie Agosin
Subject: Women's Studies/Human Rights
Paper ISBN 0-8135-2983-2
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2982-4
Pages: 320 pp.
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Description: A collection of writings by internationally renowned scholars and activists on women and human rights.
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The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare womens rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. Women, Gender, and Human Rights is the first collection of essays encompassing a wide range of womens issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the essays were written expressly for this volume by internationally known experts in the fields of government, bioethics, medicine, public affairs, literature, history, anthropology, law, and psychology.
Recipient of the Gabriella Mistral Medal of Honor (2000) and the United Nations Leadership Award (1999), Marjorie Agosín is professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Among her books are A Map of Hope: Writings on Women and Human Rights and The Alphabet in My Hands (both by Rutgers University Press), as well as several collections of poetry.
Praise for Women , Gender, and Human Rights
"This anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for womens human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are fully protected and realized."William F. Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, USA
"The devastating commonalities and startling differences in womens oppression and activism around the world are keenly explored in this excellent anthology. By linking theoretical concerns with pragmatic imperatives, Agosíns collection provokes a powerful reexamination of the human rights field."Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
"This moving anthology, masterfully compiled by poet and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín, is a must for scholars, students, and human rights workers; it also will captivate the general reader. Because women around the globe remain largely invisible, their abuse remains hidden; this book describes womens plight and points out protective actions that are cause for optimism about the future."Elena O. Nightingale, scholar-in-residence, National Academy of Sciences
"Essential reading, Women , Gender, and Human Rights argues forcefully and convincingly that the elimination of gender-based violence and discrimination, so often ignored by governments and aid organizations, must be at the center of the struggle for social justice and human dignity in this new century."Eric Stover, author of The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar
