An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of
Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's
rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender
justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States,
Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the
volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles,
cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced
certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of
rights. The essays address the gender-specific ways in which
rights-based protocols have been analyzed, deployed, and legislated
in the past and the present and the implications for women and men,
adults and children in various social and geographical locations.
Questions addressed include: What are the gendered assumptions and
effects of the dominance of rights-based discourses for claims to
social justice? What kinds of opportunities and limitations does
such a "culture of rights" provide to seekers of justice, whether
individuals or collectives, and how are these gendered? How and why
do female bodies often become the site of contention in contexts
pitting cultural against juridical perspectives? The contributors
speak to central issues in current scholarly and policy debates
about gender, culture, and human rights from comparative
disciplinary, historical, and geographical perspectives. By taking
"gender," rather than just "women," seriously as a category of
analysis, the chapters suggest that the very sources of the power
of human rights discourses, specifically "women's rights as human
rights" discourses, to produce social change are also the sources
of its limitations.
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