Publication

2012 - Ashgate Pub., Farnham, Surrey, England

Language

English

Word Count

55,250 words, Guess

Page Count

221 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC323.3/4
  • LCCK3243 .A95 2012

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • From Cape Town to Kabul: rethinking strategies for pursuing women's human rightsAshgate Pub.2012-01-01

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