ABSTRACT
In recent years, the slogan "women's rights are human rights" has become a central claim of the of the global women's movement. Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives examines the critical issues raised by this embracing and expansion of the human rights discourse by feminists worldwide.
This volume challenges the conventional, ungendered and male-centred analysis of the politics of human rights and addresses the future of global feminisms. It is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about human rights and women's rights in the Asia-Pacific region.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |36 pages
1 Introduction
Gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific
chapter |23 pages
2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse
The emergence of the military prostitution issue
chapter |23 pages
3 The state and the women's movement
Instabilities in the discourse of ‘rights' in India
chapter |23 pages
6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?
Women's rights, human rights and domestic violence in Vanuatu
