TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews,Penelope
TI  - From Cape Town to Kabul: Rethinking Strategies for Pursuing Women's Human Rights 
SN  - 9781315583297
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Political Science / Human Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of 'conditional interdependence', the book suggests a new approach based on the communitarian values which underpin newly democratic societies and would allow women's rights to gain momentum and reap greater benefits. Broad in its thematic approach, the book generates challenging and complex questions about the achievement of gender equality. It will be of interest to academics interested in gender and human rights, international and comparative law
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ebe02774-764e-4bfa-b2ee-63158d2c9e70
ER  -