Women and Human Rights : Economic Religious, Social and Political Rights, Rights at the Work Place, Reforms, Enfranchisement

Contents: 1. Women\'s human rights: an introduction/Charlotte Bunch and Samantha Frost. 2. Why is a woman a symptom of rights?/Renata Selecl. 3. Through women\'s eyes: global forces facing women in the 21 century/Charlotte Bunch. 4. Reforming women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: a comparative ethnography of welfare reform in global context/Catherine Kingfisher and Michael Goldesmith. 5. Against marriage and motherhood/Claudia Card. 6. Registered partnership as a necessary civil option and part of the feminist agenda/Zorica Mrsevic. 7. Economic reform and poverty: a gender analysis/Sally Baden. 8. Leveling the playing field: promoting women\'s economic capabilities and human rights/Jean Davison. 9. Woman\'s rights in church and state/H.H. Van Amringe. 10. The rights of women/Olympe de Gouges. 11. Reasons for and against the enfranchisement of women Bodichon/Barbara Leigh Smith. 12. Why doesn\'t she just Leave? Facts and myths about domestic violence/Trish Wilson. 13. Collective silence for collective violence/Dorothy Lemmey.