Logics of Gender Justice - State Action on Women''s Rights Around the World

This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

List of contents

1. Introduction: states and gender justice; 2. Feminist mobilization and status politics: combatting violence against women; 3. Governing women's legal status at work; 4. Doctrinal politics: religious power, the state, and family law; 5. Class politics: family leave and child care policy; 6. Reproductive rights: class, status, and doctrinal politics; 7. The multiple logics of gender justice; 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Mala Htun is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Inclusion without Representation in Latin America (Cambridge, 2016) and Sex and the State (Cambridge, 2003). She has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, held the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Japan, and was a fellow at the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame and the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Norwegian Research Council.S. Laurel Weldon is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute at Purdue University. Weldon has authored more than twenty articles and book chapters and two books, including When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantaged Groups (2011), which won the Victoria Schuck Award. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (2013) and of the journal Politics, Groups and Identities. She has served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review, Politics & Gender, Women, Politics and Policy and the European Journal of Politics and Gender.

Summary

This book analyzes women's rights in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, explaining the politics behind a wide array of government actions on women's rights issues such as violence against women, abortion and contraception, employment law, parental leave policy, child care and family law.

Product details

• Authors: Mala Htun, Mala (University of New Mexico) Htun, Mala (University of New Mexico) Weldon Htun, Htun Mala, S. Laurel Weldon, S. Laurel (Purdue University Weldon, Weldon S. Laurel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108405461
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40546-1
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Gender an; Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, Social discrimination & inequality, Comparative Politics, Gender & the law, Politics and government, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues, Social discrimination and social justice