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Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, and Womenin the New Millennium
By Wendy Chavkin, Ellen Chesler
328 pages
- Contributors:
- Includes content by:
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M. R. Robinson
Ellen Chesler
Jessica Horn
Ayesha M. Imam
Lisa Ann Richey
Radhika Chandiramani
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Benno De Keijzer
Edwin A. Winckler
Martha F. Davis
M. R. RobinsonShow more
Ellen Chesler
Jessica Horn
Ayesha M. Imam
Lisa Ann Richey
Radhika Chandiramani
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Benno De Keijzer
Edwin A. Winckler
Martha F. Davis
Wendy Chavkin
- Publisher:
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Subjects:
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Brings together eight wide-reaching and provocative essays that examine the practical and theoretical issues of reproductive health policy and implementation. This book assesses the impact of policies that have been initiated and consider future directions that governments must take in order to translate visionary ideas into actual achievements.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Where Human Rights Begin i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Where Human Rights Begin xv
- Introduction 1
- Not Culture but Gender - Reconceptualizing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 35
- Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights and the Offense of Zina in Muslim Laws in Nigeria 65
- Uganda - Hiv/Aids and Reproductive Health 95
- Mapping the Contours - Reproductive Health and Rights and Sexual Health and Rights in India 127
- The Politics of Abortion in Mexico - The Paradox of Doble Discurso 154
- Sexual-Reproductive Health and Rights - What About Men? 180
- Maximizing the Impact of Cairo on China 204
- International Human Rights from the Ground Up - The Potential for Subnational, Human Rights-Based Reproductive Health Advocacy in the United States 235
- Conclusion 270
- Where Human Rights Begin i
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Where Human Rights Begin xv
- Introduction 1
- Not Culture but Gender - Reconceptualizing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 35
- Women's Reproductive and Sexual Rights and the Offense of Zina in Muslim Laws in Nigeria 65
- Uganda - Hiv/Aids and Reproductive Health 95
- Mapping the Contours - Reproductive Health and Rights and Sexual Health and Rights in India 127
- The Politics of Abortion in Mexico - The Paradox of Doble Discurso 154
- Sexual-Reproductive Health and Rights - What About Men? 180
- Maximizing the Impact of Cairo on China 204
- International Human Rights from the Ground Up - The Potential for Subnational, Human Rights-Based Reproductive Health Advocacy in the United States 235
- Conclusion 270
- Notes on Contributors 291
- Index 295