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This book looks at the centerpiece§of the international women's rights discourse, the Convention on the§Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to§what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. Rather than assuming a§trickle-down effect, the author discusses specific methods which have made CEDAW§resonate. These methods include attempts to influence the international level§by clarifying the meaning of women's rights and strengthening the Convention's§monitoring procedure, and building connections between international and§domestic contexts that enable diverse actors to engage with CEDAW. This§analysis shows that while the Convention has worldwide impact, this impact is§fundamentally dependent on context-specific values and agency. Hence, rather§than thinking of women's rights exclusively as normative content, Zwingel suggests§to see them as in process. This book will especially appeal to students and§scholars interested in transnational feminism and gender and global governance.§

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government International relations

• Full title: Translating International Women's Rights
• Subtitle: The CEDAW Convention in Context
• Author: Susanne Zwingel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780230290976
• ISBN: 0230290973
• ID: 02960862
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 219 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. August 2016

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