Ross, Susan Deller.

Women's human rights : the international and comparative law case-book / Susan Deller Ross. - 1 online resource (702 pages) - Pennsylvania studies in human rights .

Includes bibliographies (pages [645]-648) and index.

Women's Status and CEDAW -- Equality Doctrines and Gender Discrimination: The Evolving Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court -- Interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR; and the Human Rights Committee's Evolving Equal Protection Doctrine -- Conflicting Human Rights Under International Law: Freedom of Religion Versus Women's Equality Rights -- Enforcing Women's International Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Enforcing Women's International Human Rights Under Regional Treaties: The [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared -- Special Treatment Versus Equal Treatment Debate -- CEDAW in Practice -- Enforcing Women's International Rights at Home: International Law in Domestic Courts -- Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence -- Strategies for Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Footbinding: Western Imperialism or Women's Human Rights? -- Gender and Polygyny - Religion, Culture, and Equality in Marriage -- Women's Reproductive Rights. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14.

9780812200027 (e-book)


Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation.
Women (International law)
Women's rights--International cooperation.
Human rights.


Electronic books.

K3243 / .R67 2008eb

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