Defying Convention - Us Resistance to the Un Treaty on Women''s Rights

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Baldez is Associate Professor of Government and Chair of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile (Cambridge, 2002) and the co-editor of Political Women and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2008). Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Latin American Politics and Society, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Legal Studies. She and Karen Beckwith co-founded the journal Politics and Gender. Klappentext This book explores why the United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Zusammenfassung Exploring why the United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)! this book highlights the emergence of the treaty in the context of the Cold War! the partisan nature of women's rights issues in the United States! and disagreements about how human rights treaties work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. A scaffolding for women's rights, 1945-70; 3. Geopolitics and the drafting of CEDAW; 4. An evolving global norm of women's rights; 5. CEDAW impact: process, not policy; 6. Why the United States has not ratified CEDAW; 7. CEDAW and domestic violence law in the United States?; 8. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Lisa Baldez, Lisa (Dartmouth College Baldez, Baldez Lisa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2014
• EAN: 9781107416826
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41682-6
• No. of pages: 249
• Series: Problems of International Politics; Problems of International Poli; Problems of International Poli; Problems of International Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Public, International Relations, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women and girls, International institutions, Public international law: human rights, Civics and citizenship