Myths about Women s Rights How Where and Why Rights Advance 1st Edition by Feryal Cherif ISBN 978-0190211172 0190211172

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ISBN 10:  0190211172

ISBN 13: 978-0190211172

Author:  Feryal M. Cherif

Two conventional wisdoms dominate debates about why women’s rights advance in some places but not others. While culture and religion are understood to be the primary barriers to gender equality, efforts by international institutions and women’s groups to change social norms are often seen as the most effective way to reduce discrimination.

This book introduces a third, often overlooked explanation – the core rights framework – to account for how, where, and why women’s rights advance. It argues that female labor force participation and education serve as building blocks, or core rights, for the advancement of other women’s rights. Cultivating core rights is believed to spur group consciousness, ease collective action problems, and render women in a politically relevant group, thereby increasing the prospects that women’s rights are represented in the polity. In examining the advancement of women’s rights across four major areas – political, nationality, reproductive, and property rights – this book shows that the conventional wisdom about the role of international norms and culture is usually overstated and often incomplete. It also presents systematic evidence evaluating the effectiveness of different prescriptions for improving women’s lives across a broad range of rights.

Table of contents: 

Part One THEORIES ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

1. Introduction

2. Conventional Wisdoms About Women’s Rights

3. The Core Rights Framework

Part Two HOW, WHERE, AND WHY RIGHTS ADVANCE

4. The Evolution of Women’s Nationality Rights

5. Struggling for Political Equality: From De Jure to De Facto Rights

6. The Path Toward Reproductive Choice

7. Toward Economic Equality: The Status of Women’s Property Rights

8. Culture, International Norms, and Core Rights Across Issues: Bringing It All Together

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