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Feminism refers to politics, cultural and economic movements seeking greater, equal, or among a minority, superior rights and participation in society for women and girls. These rights and means of participation include legal protection and inclusion in politics, business, and scholarship and recognition and building of women’s cultures and power. It concepts overlap with those of women’s rights. Feminism is controversial for challenging traditions in ...
This issue feminist studies offers two distinct clusters of work on middle eastern women. But also discusses themes that cross these regional divides and extend divides and extend to China and Latin America as well. These shared concerns include the ways that history and national politics shape constrain, distort and nurture feminist politics the intersections of memoir and biography with large cultural and social developments and the role of the visual arts in ...
The title of this volume, Women and Human Rights might be taken innocently to indicate its contents: a set of lectures given by women on the rights of women, on the failure to achieve those rights, and on the reasons and remedies for those failures. However, it might also imply that women's rights are not simply the extension of the agreed rights of men to all members of the community. In other words, the "lived in" experience of being female results in ...