Gender and Rights

Contents: Series preface; Introduction: asserting rights in the twenty-first century, Carol Sanger; Part I Gender and Rights: The problem of rights, Carol Smart ; Alchemy or fool's gold? Assessing feminist doubt about rights, Elizabeth Kiss; When justice replaces affection: the need for rights, Jeremy Waldron; Victims in the shadow of the law: a critique of the model of legal protection, Kristin Bumiller; That we are human, we have rights, Carlos A. Ball. Part II Sources of Well-Being and Harm: More than 100 Million women are missing, Amartya Sen; Women and cultural universals, Martha Nussbaum;Gender, property, and land rights: bridging a critical gap in economic analysis and policy, Bina Agarwal;Reflections on law in the everyday life of women, Catharine A. MacKinnon; The 'no problem' problem, Deborah L. Rhode; The right to care, Robin West. Part III Family: Relational rights and responsibilities: revisioning the family in liberal political theory and law, Martha Minow and Mary Lyndon Shanley; Group identity and women's rights in family law: the perils of multicultural accommodation, Ayelet Shachar; Vulnerability by marriage, Susan Moller Okin; Comparative law and the same-sex marriage debate: a step-by-step approach toward state recognition, William N. Eskridge, Jr. Part IV Violence: Identity within: cultural relativism, minority rights, and the empowerment of women, Radhika Coomaraswamy; Law as a Trojan horse: unintended consequences of rights-based interventions to support battered women, Ren Römkens; (Mis)identifying culture: Asian women and the 'cultural defense', Leti Volpp; Give me liberty or give me death: political asylum and the global persecution of lesbians and gay men, Suzanne B. Goldberg. Part V Work: 'Whether from reason or prejudice': taking money for bodily services, Martha C. Nussbaum; Dignity or equality? Responses to workplace harassment in European, German, and US law, Susanne Baer; For the children: trends in international policies and law