The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century

by Jean H. Quataert

Overview

Quataert examines the historiography of human rights and shows that the human rights system of international laws and institutions developed out of a clearly defined set of historical struggles: a result from above-level legal changes responding to pressures and interventions from below-level grassroots organizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872291485
Publisher:	American Historical Association
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Essays on Global and Comparative History
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	8.01(w) x 5.57(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Jean H. Quataert is a professor of women's history, German history, and social and labor history at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is the author of several books, including, Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916 (2001); Reluctant Feminists in German Social Democracy, 1885-1917 (1979); Gendering Modern German History: Themes, Debates, Revisions, editor with Karen Hagemann (2007); and Connecting Spheres: Women in the Western World from 1500 to the Present, co-author and editor with Marilyn J. Boxer (2nd edition, 1999). She is also is the recipient of the Chancellor's and University's Distinguished Teaching Award (1999), the Central European History Prize for the best article in a two year period (1987) and the Berkshire Prize for the best article in the field of History written by a woman (1986), for: The Shaping of Women's Work in Manufacturing: Guilds, Household and the State in Central Europe, 1648-1870.She is currently working on the book Advocating Dignity: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights Struggles and Global Politics, 1945-2005.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: International Humanitarian Law and Its Limitations

Chapter 2: The League of Nations and International Rights

Chapter 3: The International ization of Human Rights

Chapter 4: Global Perspectives on the Gendering of Rights

Chapter 5: Regional Cultures and Human Rights

Chapter 6: Reformulations of Women's Human Rights

Conclusion

Notes