基本説明
This is a review of where the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean stand on key social and cultural issues.
Full Description
The women's movement was probably the most influential social phenomenon of the last quarter of the 20th century. Many governments were forced to respond to its calls for change. In 1979 a new international convention rejecting all forms of discrimination against women was born. Twenty years later it has been ratified by 165 countries. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, millions of women worldwide are still denied the most fundamental rights.
In this book, 12 journalists from Africa, Asia and Latin America investigate struggles to reform punitive personal status laws, to introduce fair marriage contracts, to allow divorced women child custody rights and independent access to land, to end sexual harassment in education, discriminatory employment practices and domestic violence. Personal accounts by women from widely different backgrounds, combined with searching analysis, make a compelling case for the radical overhaul of laws and social policies that shape attitudes and define what rights women have in practice.
A unique aspect of this book is its holistic approach. In each chapter, the particular issue under scrutiny is also examined from the perspective of its effect on women's reproductive rights and health - still the area of women's experience over which societies exercise the most rigid, though often hidden, control.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Sacred Knots and Unholy Deals: The road towards pro-women legal reform - Dina Ezzat
3. Women No Cry: Female-headed households in the Caribbean - Suzanne Francis Brown
4. Sexuality Under Wraps: Acknowledging adolescence in India - Swati Bhattacherjee
5. Less than Human Treatment: Maternity protection in Kenya - Dorothy Munyakho
6. No Mother's Day for Women Workers: Sex discrimination in Mexico - Sara Lovera
7. Legalised Cruelty: Anti-women laws in Pakistan - Ayesha Khan and Hilda Saeed
8. 'Business orphans': Maternity rights and childcare in the Philippines - Roselle Leah Rivera
9. File under 'Hurt': Domestic violence in Sri Lanka - Rahal Saeed
10. A Field of Her Own: Women and land rights in Zimbabwe - Pat Made
11. No Paradise Yet: women and child custody laws in Bangladesh - Lamis Hossein
12. Democracy in the Nation, But Not at Home: Domestic violence and women's reproductive health in Chile - Lezak Shallat
13. Tested to their Limit: Sexual harassment in schools and educational institutions in Kenya - Juliana Omale
