Women reshaping human rights
Subtitle: how extraordinary activists are changing the world
By: Marguerite Guzman Bouvard.
Publisher: SR Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Human rights; Civil rights; Women human rights workers -- Biography; Women civil rights workers -- Biography
Description: Women have long been active in the struggle for human rights: in the Resistance during World War II; in rebellion against authoritarian governments; and in seeking environmental justice and cultural equality around the world. Yet often their accomplishments have remained unrecognized.

In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood.

Professor Marguerite Bouvard provides a complete biography of every activist. The stage is thus set for each individual, who recounts real-life tales of courage that force us to ask what each of us must do in the fight for justice and dignity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-319).