00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004634 10260/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10259/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221024104059 10259/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10260/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520004634 221024################|##########|#eng## 9780415459068 eng 323.34 323.34 POL Politics of Rights : Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis The Politics of Rights : Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis / Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux New York : Routledge, 2008 ix, 174p. : : illus. ; 25 cm. Indeks : p.169-174 Since the late 1990s, development institutions have increasingly used the language of rights in their policy and practice. This book explores the strategies, tensions and challenges associated with rights work from a feminist perspective. Articles on the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East and South Asia examine the dilemmas that arise for feminist praxis in these diverse location, and address the question of what rights can contribute to struggles for gender justice. They explore the intersection of formal rights - wether international human rights conventions, constitutional rights or national legislation - with everyday realities of women in settings characterised by entrenched gender inequalities and poverty, plural legal systems and cultural norms that can constitute formidable obstacles to realising rights. They suggest that these sites of struggle can create new possibilities and meanings - and a politics of rights animated by demands for social and gender justice. Women's rights Feminism Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux 10259/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10260/MKRI-P/XI-2008