Bibliographies on Human Rights: Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley

Universalism vs. Relativism in Human Rights:
Implications for Human Rights Practice

Bibliography compiled by Molly Ryan
Fall, 1997

Feminist Theory

Ahmad, L. (1989). Arab Culture and Writing Women's Bodies. Feminist Issues, Spring:41-55.

Bethke Elshtain, Jean (1995). Exporting Feminism. Journal of International Affairs. Winter, 48(2).

Bhabha, Jacqueline (1996). Embodied Rights: Gender Persecution, State Sovereignty, and Refugees. Public Culture, 9:3-32.

Binion, Gayle (1995). Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective. Human Rights Quarterly, 17:509-526.

Bunting, Annie (1993). Theorizing Women's Cultural Diversity in Feminist International Human Rights Strategies. Journal of Law and Society, 20(1):6-22.

Carey-Webb, Allen and Stephen Benz (1996). Teaching and Testimony. Rigoberta Menchu and the North American Classroom. SUNY Press, Albany.

Center for Women's Global Citizenship, (1994). Gender Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa., Women, Ink.

Cook, Rebecca (1994). Human Rights of Women. National and International Perspectives. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.

Copelon, Rhonda (1995). Women and War Crimes. St. Johns Law Review, 69(1-2):61.

Cuomo, Chris (1996). War is not just an event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence. Hypatia, 11(4):30-45.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (1995). Contested Meanings: Women and the Problem of Freedom in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States. In Olwen Hufton, ed. Historical Change and Human Rights. The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1994. Basic Books, NY.

Marin, Lynda (1991). Speaking out Together: Testimonials of Latin American Women. Latin American Perspectives, 70(18)3:51-68, Summer.

Nicholson, Linda ed. (1990). Feminism/Postmodernism, Routledge, London.

Nussbaum, Martha and Jonathan Glover (1995). Women, Culture and Development. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Oloka-Onyango, J. and Sylvia Tamale (1995). "The Personal is Political," or Why Women's Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism. Human Rights Quarterly, 17:691-731.

Parpart, Jane and Marianne Marchand (1995). Feminism/Postmodernism/Development. Routledge, London.

Pateman, C. (1988). The Sexual Contract. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

Peters, Julie and Andrea Wolper (1995). Women's Rights, Human rights. International Feminist Perspectives. Routledge, NY.

Pitanguy, Jacqueline (1995). Women's Citizenship and Human Rights: The Case of Brazil. in Georgina Ashworth, ed. (1995). A Diplomacy of the Oppressed. Zed Books, London.

Rao, Arati (1995). The Politics of Gender and Culture in International Human Rights Discourse. in Peters and Wolper ed. (1995).

Sachdeva Mann, Harveen (1995). Women's Rights Versus Feminism? Postcolonial Perspectives. Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts. Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohanram, eds. Greenwood Press, Westport, CN.

Saporta Sternbach, Nancy(1991). Re-membering the Dead: Latin American Women's "Testimonial" Discourse. Latin American Perspectives, 70(18:3):91-102.

Stamp, Patricia (1991). "Burying Otieno". 1988. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Kenya. Signs, 16(4):Summer 1991.

Suarez Toro, Maria (1995). Popularizing Women's Human Rights at the Local Level: A Grassroots Methodology for Setting the International Agenda. In Peters and Wolper (1995).

West, Lois (1992). Feminist nationalist social movements: beyond universalism and towards a gendered cultural relativism. Women's Studies International Forum, 15(5-6), September.

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