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Author Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman, 1937-

Title Women reshaping human rights : how extraordinary activists are changing the world / Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard
Published Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 1996

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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.
Human rights.
Women civil rights workers -- Biography.
Women human rights workers -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 96005126
ISBN 0842025626 (cloth : alk. paper)
0842025634 (paperback: alk. paper)