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From Cape Town to Kabul

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From Cape Town to Kabul book

Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights

From Cape Town to Kabul

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From Cape Town to Kabul book

Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights
ByPenelope Andrews
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2012
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583297
Pages 232 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315583297
SubjectsArea Studies, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Andrews, P. (2012). From Cape Town to Kabul. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583297

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. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of ’conditional interdependence’, the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women’s rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|9 pages

Setting the Stage: Transforming Women’s Lives

chapter 2|24 pages

Reconsidering Women’s Rights

chapter 3|27 pages

The Global Legal Campaign for Women’s Rights

chapter 4|27 pages

Culture and Women’s Rights: A Continuing Dilemma

chapter 5|41 pages

South Africa’s Constitutional Project: Constitutional Text and Constitutional Jurisprudence

chapter 6|33 pages

Afghanistan and Gender Equality

chapter 7|8 pages

Obstacles to the Pursuit of Women’s Rights: Conditional Interdependence Revisited

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