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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433258003321

Autore

Andrews

Titolo

From Cape Town to Kabul [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge, 2012

ISBN

1-4094-7240-X

1-317-13246-7

1-315-58329-1

1-317-13245-9

1-283-70554-0

0-7546-9978-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

323.34

Soggetti

Women's rights - South Africa

Women's rights - Afghanistan

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - South Africa

Sex discrimination against women - Law and legislation - Afghanistan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the stage : transforming women's lives -- The global legal campaign for women's rights -- Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma -- South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence -- Afghanistan and gender equality -- Reconsidering women's rights -- Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.

Sommario/riassunto

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law.