The World of Women In Pursuit of Human Rights [Paperback]

The book is concerned with social issues and problems that effect women throughout the world, the policies and practices that impinge on their human rights, and the programmes around the globe that are successfully changing their conditions. This interdisciplinary work provides a rich resource of information, linking discrimination and violence against women to family law, sex roles to sex industries, and sexual oppression to politics, education, employment, health and mental health.Acknowledgements - Preface - Rationale - How to Use This Book - A Global Challenge: Human Rights and Women - Anti-Discrimination and Pro-Equality Measures - From Sex Roles to Sex Industries - The Politics of Oppression and Action - Education for the 21st Century - An Employment Imperative - A World Health Mandate - Rural Women, Mental Health, and Economic Development - Equality, the Family, and the Law - Women at Risk/Women in Action - Appendix - References - Index