Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin by Maxine Molyneux,N. Craske

By Maxine Molyneux,N. Craske

This quantity assesses essentially the most vital advancements in modern Latin American women's pursuits: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised girls have performed a critical position within the persisted fight for democracy within the zone and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and inside of them the popularity of women's rights, has provided girls a strategic virtue in pursuing their ambitions of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters examine particular our bodies of rights: rights and illustration, household violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, criminal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the nation and autonomy.

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