Part I History and Perspectives
Chapter 1 Becoming Human: The Origins and
Development of Women's Human Rights 3
Arvonne S. Fraser
Chapter 2 Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward
a Re-Vision of Human Rights 57
Charlotte Bunch
Chapter 3 Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective 70
Cayle Binion
Chapter 4 The Gender of ]us Cogens 87
Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
Chapter 5 Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural
Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human
Rights Discourse 101
Eva Brems
Part II Religion, Culture, and Women's Human Rights
Chapter 6 The Human Rights of Middle Eastern
and Muslim Women: A Project for
the Twenty-first Century 133
Janet Afary
Chapter 7 Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary
Injustice: Widows in African Societies 152
Uche U. Ewelukwa
Chapter 8 Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as
a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work 214
Kamala Visweswaran
Part III Violence and Women
Chapter 9 Women's Voices, Women's Pain 243
Ustinia Dolgopol
Chapter 10 Women, War, and Rape: Challenges
Facing the International Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia 270
Catherine N. Niarchos
Chapter 11 Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing:
Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to
Rape Victims in the Former Yugoslavia 311
Todd A. Salzman
Chapter 12 Surfacing Children: Limitations of
Genocidal Rape Discourse 342
R. Charli Carpenter
Chapter 13 Rights Talk and the Experience of Law:
Implementing Women's Human Rights
the Protection from Violence 393
Sally Engle Merry
Chapter 14 Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported:
Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect
the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the
Prosecution of Traffickers 431
Dina Francesca Haynes
Part IV Economic Rights
Chapter 15 Measuring Women's Economic and Social
Rights Achievement 485
Clair Apodaca
Chapter 16 The Impact of Structural Adjustment on
Women: A Governance and Human
Rights Agenda 520
Bharati Sadasivam
Part V Reproductive Rights
Chapter 17 Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion
Law Reform 557
Rebecca 1. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens
Chapter 18 Debating Reproductive Rights in Ireland 613
SiobhAn Mullally
Chapter 19 China to CEDAW: An Update on
Population Policy 639
Carmel Shalev
Chapter 1 Becoming Human: The Origins and
Development of Women's Human Rights 3
Arvonne S. Fraser
Chapter 2 Women's Rights as Human Rights: Toward
a Re-Vision of Human Rights 57
Charlotte Bunch
Chapter 3 Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective 70
Cayle Binion
Chapter 4 The Gender of ]us Cogens 87
Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin
Chapter 5 Enemies or Allies? Feminism and Cultural
Relativism as Dissident Voices in Human
Rights Discourse 101
Eva Brems
Part II Religion, Culture, and Women's Human Rights
Chapter 6 The Human Rights of Middle Eastern
and Muslim Women: A Project for
the Twenty-first Century 133
Janet Afary
Chapter 7 Post-Colonialism, Gender, Customary
Injustice: Widows in African Societies 152
Uche U. Ewelukwa
Chapter 8 Gendered States: Rethinking Culture as
a Site of South Asian Human Rights Work 214
Kamala Visweswaran
Part III Violence and Women
Chapter 9 Women's Voices, Women's Pain 243
Ustinia Dolgopol
Chapter 10 Women, War, and Rape: Challenges
Facing the International Tribunal for
the Former Yugoslavia 270
Catherine N. Niarchos
Chapter 11 Rape Camps as a Means of Ethnic Cleansing:
Religious, Cultural, and Ethical Responses to
Rape Victims in the Former Yugoslavia 311
Todd A. Salzman
Chapter 12 Surfacing Children: Limitations of
Genocidal Rape Discourse 342
R. Charli Carpenter
Chapter 13 Rights Talk and the Experience of Law:
Implementing Women's Human Rights
the Protection from Violence 393
Sally Engle Merry
Chapter 14 Used, Abused, Arrested, and Deported:
Extending Immigration Benefits to Protect
the Victims of Trafficking and to Secure the
Prosecution of Traffickers 431
Dina Francesca Haynes
Part IV Economic Rights
Chapter 15 Measuring Women's Economic and Social
Rights Achievement 485
Clair Apodaca
Chapter 16 The Impact of Structural Adjustment on
Women: A Governance and Human
Rights Agenda 520
Bharati Sadasivam
Part V Reproductive Rights
Chapter 17 Human Rights Dynamics of Abortion
Law Reform 557
Rebecca 1. Cook and Bernard M. Dickens
Chapter 18 Debating Reproductive Rights in Ireland 613
SiobhAn Mullally
Chapter 19 China to CEDAW: An Update on
Population Policy 639
Carmel Shalev