"This anthology adds strength and credence to the struggle for
women's human rights. It reinforces the conviction that no society
can prosper and no new world be born until the rights of women are
fully protected and realized."-William F. Schulz, executive
director of Amnesty International, USA "The devastating
commonalities and startling differences in women's oppression and
activism around the world are keenly explored in this excellent
anthology. Agosin's collection provokes a powerful reexamination of
the human rights field."-Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
"This moving anthology, masterfully compiled by poet and human
rights activist Marjorie Agosin, is a must for scholars, students,
and human rights workers; it also will captivate the general
reader."-Elena O. Nightingale, scholar-in-residence, National
Academy of Sciences "Essential reading, Women, Gender, and Human
Rights argues forcefully and convincingly that the elimination of
gender-based violence and discrimination, so often ignored by
governments and aid organizations, must be at the center of the
struggle for social justice and human dignity in this new
century."-Eric Stover, author of The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and
equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare women's
rights to be human rights, and bring gender issues into the global
arena for the first time. Women, Gender, and Human Rights is the
first collection of essays encompassing a wide range of women's
issues, including political and domestic violence, education,
literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the essays were written
expressly for this volume by internationally known experts in the
fields of government, bioethics, medicine, public affairs,
literature, history, anthropology, law, and psychology. Recipient
of the Henrietta Szold Award by Hadassah (2001), the Gabriela
Mistral Medal of Honor (2000), and the United Nations Leadership
Award (1999), Marjorie Agosin is a professor of Spanish at
Wellesley College. Among her books are A Map of Hope: Writings on
Women and Human Rights and The Alphabet in My Hands (both by
Rutgers University Press).
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