From Cape Town to Kabul
Subtitle: rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rights
By: by Penelope Andrews
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780754679967; 9780754699781
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Law and legislation; Women's rights
Description: "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 which would allow women's rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage : transforming women's lives; title: The global legal campaign for women's rights; title: Culture and women's rights : a continuing dilemma; title: South Africa's constitutional project : constitutional text and constitutional jurisprudence; title: Afghanistan and gender equality; title: Reconsidering women's rights; title: Obstacles to the pursuit of women's rights: conditional interdependence revisited.