Description |
xxvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction: Women Transforming the Battle for Human Rights -- Pt. I. Confronting Authoritarian Governments. Ch. 1. Vera Laska. Ch. 2. Eva Brantley. Ch. 3. Annette Lu Hsiu-Lien. Ch. 4. Dai Qing -- Pt. II. Struggling with Race and Ethnicity. Ch. 5. Daisy L. Bates. Ch. 6. Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi. Ch. 7. Awiakta. Ch. 8. Navanethem Pillay -- Pt. III. Seeking Environmental Justice. Ch. 9. Dollie B. Burwell. Ch. 10. Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles. Ch. 11. Grace Thorpe -- Pt. IV. Upholding Women's Rights as Human Rights. Ch. 12. Gertrude Mongella. Ch. 13. Jessica Neuwirth and Equality Now. Ch. 14. Navanethem Pillay. Ch. 15. Zhu Hong -- Pt. V. Making the World Safe for Children. Ch. 16. Liv Ullmann. Ch. 17. The International Gathering of Mothers and Women in Struggle |
Summary |
Women have long been active in the struggle for human rights: in the Resistance during World War II; in rebellion against authoritarian governments; and in seeking environmental justice and cultural equality around the world. Yet often their accomplishments have remained unrecognized. In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Lost Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood. Professor Marguerite Bouvard provides a complete biography of every activist. The stage is thus set for each individual, who recounts real-life tales of courage that force us to ask what each of us must do in the fight for justice and dignity |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) |
Subject |
Civil rights.
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Human rights.
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Women civil rights workers -- Biography.
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Women human rights workers -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
96005126 |
ISBN |
0842025626 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0842025634 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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