U.s. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women''s Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Kelly J. Shannon Klappentext U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy. Zusammenfassung U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution Chapter 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979 Chapter 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam Chapter 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi "Gender Apartheid" Chapter 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s Chapter 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration Chapter 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11 Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Kelly J. Shannon
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780812224672
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2467-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education