Translating International Women's Rights : The CEDAW Convention in Context.
Zwingel, Susanne.
Translating International Women's Rights : The CEDAW Convention in Context. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Gender and Politics Series . - Gender and Politics Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theorizing Norm Translation: Women's Rights as Transnational Practice -- Women's Rights from the Top: Cooperation, Diffusion, De-centering -- International Cooperation and Global Norm Diffusion: Mechanisms of Legitimacy and Trickle-Down Assumptions -- De-centering International Norms: Constant Evolution and Localized Meanings -- Transnational Visions of Women's Rights -- Rethinking Container Spaces, Hierarchies and Separations: Transnational Visions of the World -- The Between-ness of Discourses: Vernacularizing Human Rights -- Transnational Feminist Reconfigurations of Agency -- Women's Rights in Motion: Global Discourse Translation and Impact Translation -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Creation of CEDAW within the Global Discourse on Gender Equality -- Women's Rights in International Context: Increased Awareness, Persisting Inequalities -- International Knowledge Formation on Women's Issues (1945-1975) -- Global Transformation: "A Feast of Knowledge and Power" (1975-1995) -- Consolidation and New Challenges (1995-Present) -- Creating CEDAW: The Drafting Process and Its Results -- Drafting the Convention -- The Convention's Content -- Major Debates During the Drafting Process -- Assessing the Instrument -- Understanding the Convention in a Changing Global Environment -- Notes -- Chapter 4: CEDAW as a "Living Document": Over Thirty Years of Committee Work -- CEDAW Within the United Nations -- Start Low, End High: The Committee's Working Conditions -- Connectivity with the CSW, Human Rights Architecture, and Specialized Agencies -- The Committee at Work -- Who Are the Committee Experts? -- The Constructive Dialogue as the Backbone of the Committee's Work. A Dialogue on Equal Terms: Gaining the Respect of States Parties -- Consistency and Coherence in Treaty Interpretation -- Creating Efficiency: Technical Improvements of the Constructive Dialogue -- An Assertive Interpreter of the Convention: Reservations and General Recommendations -- Taking Stock: Where Does the "Women's Bill of Rights" Stand Today? -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A New Tool in the Toolbox: The Optional Protocol to the Convention -- In the Victim's or the State's Interest? Main Features of OP to CEDAW -- Bringing the Instrument to Life: Committee Activism Around the OP -- Inquiries -- Communications -- How Do States Parties Respond? A Look at Follow-up Measures -- What Has the New Tool Added to the Translation of Women's Rights? -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Creating "Thick Connections": Translating Activism in the CEDAW Process -- Transnational Activism in Global Discourse Translation: Supporting CEDAW Versus Promoting Anti-feminism -- The Door Opener: International Women's Rights Action Watch -- Making Global-Local Connections and Expanding Women's Rights: International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific -- Establishing Global-Local Connections -- Clarifying the Meaning and Scope of Women's Rights -- Re-writing the Women's Rights Framework: "Pro Women/Anti-feminist" Interventions -- The Bridge to Impact Translation: Making CEDAW Visible in Domestic Contexts -- Spreading the Word: The CEDAW Experts -- Systematically Connecting the Dots: IWRAW AP -- UN Agencies and the Dissemination of Women's Rights -- Creating Missing Links Through Translating Activism -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Auditing the Contract Partners: States Parties' Connectivity with CEDAW -- Principled Connectivity with CEDAW -- CEDAW Ratification Patterns -- Patterns of Reservations -- Membership in the OP -- Trends of Principled Connectivity -- Substantive Connectivity. States Parties' Reporting Habits -- Dialogue Frequency -- Substantive Connectivity in Relation to World Region, Regime Type, and Affinity to Gender Equality -- Concrete Examples of Principled and Substantive Connectivity -- Patterns of Decreasing Commitment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Some Patches in the Quilt: Cases of Impact Translation -- The Difference CEDAW Makes: Assessments of Impact -- CEDAW Impact Translation in Chile and Finland: Two Cases of High Connectivity with the Convention -- Context Factors: Political, Socio-Economic, and Gender-Related Development -- CEDAW and Gender Difference. Impact Translation in Chile -- Actors Dealing with CEDAW -- Crucial Issue Areas -- Assessing the Process -- Impact Translation in Finland -- Actors Dealing with CEDAW -- Ratification Process and Crucial Issue Areas -- Assessing the Process -- Decreasing Commitment and "Normative Incompleteness" -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: How Far Can CEDAW Reach? Lessons for a Better Understanding of Norm Translation -- Appendix 1: List of Interviews -- Appendix 2: List of Decided Communications Until June 2014 -- Appendix 3: Principled Connectivity With CEDAW -- Appendix 4: Substantive Connectivity Values -- Appendix 5: Dialogue Frequency of CEDAW States Parties in Yearly Intervals (1982-2014) -- Bibliography -- UN Document -- Index.
9781137315014
Political science.
Electronic books.
JA1-92
323.34
Translating International Women's Rights : The CEDAW Convention in Context. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (303 pages) - Gender and Politics Series . - Gender and Politics Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theorizing Norm Translation: Women's Rights as Transnational Practice -- Women's Rights from the Top: Cooperation, Diffusion, De-centering -- International Cooperation and Global Norm Diffusion: Mechanisms of Legitimacy and Trickle-Down Assumptions -- De-centering International Norms: Constant Evolution and Localized Meanings -- Transnational Visions of Women's Rights -- Rethinking Container Spaces, Hierarchies and Separations: Transnational Visions of the World -- The Between-ness of Discourses: Vernacularizing Human Rights -- Transnational Feminist Reconfigurations of Agency -- Women's Rights in Motion: Global Discourse Translation and Impact Translation -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Creation of CEDAW within the Global Discourse on Gender Equality -- Women's Rights in International Context: Increased Awareness, Persisting Inequalities -- International Knowledge Formation on Women's Issues (1945-1975) -- Global Transformation: "A Feast of Knowledge and Power" (1975-1995) -- Consolidation and New Challenges (1995-Present) -- Creating CEDAW: The Drafting Process and Its Results -- Drafting the Convention -- The Convention's Content -- Major Debates During the Drafting Process -- Assessing the Instrument -- Understanding the Convention in a Changing Global Environment -- Notes -- Chapter 4: CEDAW as a "Living Document": Over Thirty Years of Committee Work -- CEDAW Within the United Nations -- Start Low, End High: The Committee's Working Conditions -- Connectivity with the CSW, Human Rights Architecture, and Specialized Agencies -- The Committee at Work -- Who Are the Committee Experts? -- The Constructive Dialogue as the Backbone of the Committee's Work. A Dialogue on Equal Terms: Gaining the Respect of States Parties -- Consistency and Coherence in Treaty Interpretation -- Creating Efficiency: Technical Improvements of the Constructive Dialogue -- An Assertive Interpreter of the Convention: Reservations and General Recommendations -- Taking Stock: Where Does the "Women's Bill of Rights" Stand Today? -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A New Tool in the Toolbox: The Optional Protocol to the Convention -- In the Victim's or the State's Interest? Main Features of OP to CEDAW -- Bringing the Instrument to Life: Committee Activism Around the OP -- Inquiries -- Communications -- How Do States Parties Respond? A Look at Follow-up Measures -- What Has the New Tool Added to the Translation of Women's Rights? -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Creating "Thick Connections": Translating Activism in the CEDAW Process -- Transnational Activism in Global Discourse Translation: Supporting CEDAW Versus Promoting Anti-feminism -- The Door Opener: International Women's Rights Action Watch -- Making Global-Local Connections and Expanding Women's Rights: International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific -- Establishing Global-Local Connections -- Clarifying the Meaning and Scope of Women's Rights -- Re-writing the Women's Rights Framework: "Pro Women/Anti-feminist" Interventions -- The Bridge to Impact Translation: Making CEDAW Visible in Domestic Contexts -- Spreading the Word: The CEDAW Experts -- Systematically Connecting the Dots: IWRAW AP -- UN Agencies and the Dissemination of Women's Rights -- Creating Missing Links Through Translating Activism -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Auditing the Contract Partners: States Parties' Connectivity with CEDAW -- Principled Connectivity with CEDAW -- CEDAW Ratification Patterns -- Patterns of Reservations -- Membership in the OP -- Trends of Principled Connectivity -- Substantive Connectivity. States Parties' Reporting Habits -- Dialogue Frequency -- Substantive Connectivity in Relation to World Region, Regime Type, and Affinity to Gender Equality -- Concrete Examples of Principled and Substantive Connectivity -- Patterns of Decreasing Commitment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Some Patches in the Quilt: Cases of Impact Translation -- The Difference CEDAW Makes: Assessments of Impact -- CEDAW Impact Translation in Chile and Finland: Two Cases of High Connectivity with the Convention -- Context Factors: Political, Socio-Economic, and Gender-Related Development -- CEDAW and Gender Difference. Impact Translation in Chile -- Actors Dealing with CEDAW -- Crucial Issue Areas -- Assessing the Process -- Impact Translation in Finland -- Actors Dealing with CEDAW -- Ratification Process and Crucial Issue Areas -- Assessing the Process -- Decreasing Commitment and "Normative Incompleteness" -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: How Far Can CEDAW Reach? Lessons for a Better Understanding of Norm Translation -- Appendix 1: List of Interviews -- Appendix 2: List of Decided Communications Until June 2014 -- Appendix 3: Principled Connectivity With CEDAW -- Appendix 4: Substantive Connectivity Values -- Appendix 5: Dialogue Frequency of CEDAW States Parties in Yearly Intervals (1982-2014) -- Bibliography -- UN Document -- Index.
9781137315014
Political science.
Electronic books.
JA1-92
323.34