WOMEN, GENDER, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A Global Perspective

The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses the credo that all human beings are created free and equal. But not until 1995 did the United Nations declare women’s rights to be human rights and bring gender issues into the global arena for the first time. “Women, Gender, and Human Rights” is the first collection of essays encompassing a wide range of women’s issues, including political and domestic violence, education, literacy, and reproductive rights. Most of the essays were written expressly for this volume by internationally known experts in the fields of government, bioethics, medicine, public affairs, literature, history, anthropology, law, and psychology.