1st Edition

Women's Voices, Women's Rights

By Alison Jeffries Copyright 1999
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Six key scholars present a feminist critique of the theory of human rights. The title of this volume, Womens’ Voices, Womens’ 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 also implies that womens’ rights are not simply the... Read more
Introduction (Alison Jeffries); The Feminist Critique of Liberalism (Martha Nussbaum); Womens Rights: Whose Obligations? (Onora ONeill); Are Women Human? (Marilyn French); Women Are Like Cold Mutton: Power, Humiliation, and a New Definition of Human Rights (Naomi Wolf); Each Man in His Cave (Michle le Doeuff); Womens Rights in Todays Political Climate (Shere Hite with comments by Alison Jeffries and Sarah Ansari)

Biography

Alison Jeffries, Chris Miller