Women's Human Rights : The International and Comparative Law Casebook.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Summary of Contents -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Using this Book -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Women's Status and CEDAW -- I. Women's Human Rights: An Introduction -- II. Women's Status around the World -- III. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination -- IV. Case Study: Afghanistan -- Chapter 2. Equality Doctrines and Gender Discrimination: The Evolving Jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee and the U.S. Supreme Court -- I. Early International Sources of Women's Human Rights -- II. The UN Human Rights Committee: Its Role and Function -- III. Equality Doctrines, Gender, and the United States Supreme Court: A Comparative Standard -- Chapter 3. The Interrelationship of the ICCPR and the ICESCR -- and the Human Rights Committee's Evolving Equal Protection Doctrine -- I. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) -- II. Applying Equal Protection to Different Sex-Based Statutes -- III. Case Study: Philippine Family Law -- Chapter 4. Conflicting Human Rights under International Law: Freedom of Religion versus Women's Equality Rights -- I. A Comparison of Religious Fundamentalist Norms in Five Religions -- II. The UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- III. Religious Freedom and Women's Rights under the ICCPR and CEDAW -- IV. A Comparative View of how the Conflict between Religious Freedom and Women's Rights is Resolved under the U.S. Constitution -- Chapter 5. Enforcing Women's International Human Rights under Regional Treaties: The American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- I. Introduction to the American Convention on Human Rights -- II. A Challenge to Costa Rica's Gender-Based Nationality Law.

III. Case Study: Costa Rican Nationality Law Revisited in a Costa Rican Court -- IV. Other Women's Issues in the American System -- V. Introduction to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- VI. The Relevance to Women of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights -- Chapter 6. Enforcing Women's International Human Rights under Regional Treaties: The [European] Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- I. Introduction to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- II. Using the European Convention -- Chapter 7. Economic Empowerment and Employment Discrimination: Europe and the United States Compared -- I. Women's Economic Empowerment -- II. The European System -- III. The United States System -- Chapter 8. The Special Treatment versus Equal Treatment Debate -- I. The International Labour Organization -- II. Special Treatment versus Equal Treatment in the Context of Childbirth and Childcare -- Chapter 9. CEDAW in Practice -- I. Egypt as Case Study: CEDAW's Effectiveness in Addressing the Subordination of Women in Marriage -- II. Strategies for Using CEDAW to Effect Change at Home -- Chapter 10. Enforcing Women's International Rights at Home: International Law in Domestic Courts -- I. The Relationship Between National and International Law: Theory -- II. Applying the International Right to Equal Treatment without Regard to Gender in Domestic Courts -- III. Applying the International Right against Slavery and Slave-Like Practices in a Domestic Court -- Chapter 11. Strategies to Combat Domestic Violence -- I. Domestic Violence and "Honor" Crimes -- II. Holding the State Responsible for Private Violence -- III. International and Regional Law Concerning Domestic Violence -- IV. Examples of Different State Mechanisms in Action.

Chapter 12. Strategies for Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Footbinding: Western Cultural Imperialism or Women's Human Rights? -- I. Cultural Relativism -- II. FGM: The Practice -- Its Consequences -- and its Prevalence -- III. Footbinding-Comparing Two Movements -- IV. Breast Implants: Female Breast Mutilation? -- V. National Legal Approaches: What Works? -- Chapter 13. Gender and Polygyny-Religion, Culture, and Equality in Marriage -- I. An Introduction to the Practice of Polygyny -- II. Women's Voices -- III. Equal Protection Versus Religious Freedom -- IV. Perspectives on Polygyny -- V. A Case Study: Uganda -- VI. Resolving the Polygyny Question -- Chapter 14. Women's Reproductive Rights -- I. Introduction -- II. Abortion: Women's Autonomy versus Fetal Life -- III. Sex-Selective Abortion: A Conflict of Interests? -- IV. Child Marriage and Reproductive Rights -- Table of Cases -- Glossary -- Acronyms and Short Forms -- Credits and Permissions -- Index.

Women's Human Rights studies the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs and demonstrates how international human rights treaties can be used to develop new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination, subordination, and violence.

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