Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Backgrounds; 1. Transforming Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective; 2. Women's Human Rights The Emergence of a Movement; 3. Women's Rights and the United Nations; Regional Reports; 4. Violence Against Women The Indian Perspective; 5. Legacies of Invisibility: Past Silence, Present Violence Against Women in the Former Yugoslavia; 6. The Medium Term Philippine Development Plan Toward the Year 2000: Filipino Women's Issues and Perspectives; 7. Women in South Africa and the Constitution-Making Process

8. After the Revolution: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Iran9. "Help Me Balance the Load" Gender Discrimination in Kenya; 10. Women's Human Rights in the United States An Immigrant's Perspective; 11. Women in Israel: Fighting Tradition; 12. The Testimony of Women Writers: The Situation of Women in China Today; Gendered Law, "Public" and "Private"; 13. Human Rights as Men's Rights; 14. Critiquing Gender-Neutral Treaty Language: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Againt Women; 15. The Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law

16. State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses17. The Human Rights of Women in the Family: Issues and Recommendations for Implementation of the Women's Convention; Cultural Difference; 18. The Politics of Gender and Culture in International Human Rights Discourse; 19. Cultural Particularism as a Bar to Women's Rights: Reflections on the Middle Eastern Experience; 20. Popularizing Women's Human Rights at the Local Level: A Grassroots Methodology for Setting the International Agenda; Violence and Health; 21. Gendered War Crimes Reconceptualizing Rape in Time of War

22. AIDS and Gender Violence: the Enslavement of Burmese Women in the Thai Sex Industry23. Female Genital Mutilation; 24. Freedom Close to Home: The Impact of Violence Against Women on Reproductive Rights; 25. International Human Rights and Women's Reproductive Health; Development and the Socio-Economy; 26. Women's Access to Productive Resources: The Need for Legal Instruments to Protect Women's Development Rights; 27. Contextualizing Gender and Labor Class, Ethnicity, and Global Politics in the Yemeni Socio-Economy; 28. Women's Rights and the Right to Development

The Persecuted, The Voiceless29. Women and the Word: The Silencing of the Feminine; 30. Discrimination and the Tolerance of Difference: International Lesbian Human Rights; 31. Human Rights for Refugee and Displaced Women; 32. Where in the World is There Safety for Me?: Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution; Conclusion; Contributors; Index