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Stewart, Ann (2012) Gender, justice and law in a global market. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Warwick School of Law Research Paper (Number 2012/13).
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Abstract
Recognition of women’s human rights has been a focus of international activism for over thirty years. Political campaigns, such as those to confront tolerance of myriad forms of violence against women, have been successful in forcing the position of women on to the international stage. These battles were hard fought and fraught with tensions but nonetheless the ‘culturally sensitive’ universalism (Engle 2005) that emerged laid the cornerstones for creative use of rights by women’s activist groups throughout the world. The positive momentum of this movement was reflected in the UN conferences of the 1990s, a period of optimism. However, the rights framework emerged against the backdrop of the profound economic, social and political changes associated with the collapse of the Soviet system and the triumph of neo liberal economic development, which has resulted in the contemporary forms of globalisation of the 21st century.
Until recently, feminist engagement with the theories and practices of development has followed a different path. Rooted in the wider discourse of development, practitioners have tackled the gender blind nature of much economic development theory and practice and highlighted the consequent impact of the unequal distribution of economic and social resources within Global South communities and states. Gender and development campaigners succeeded in ensuring that gender concerns have been ‘mainstreamed’ into normative frameworks and multilateral and state based development policies. Does this represent another success story?
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick School of Law Research Paper | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | 31 May 2012 | ||||
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Number: | Number 2012/13 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 27 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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