The Gender Imperative: Human Security Vs State Security

by Betty A. Reardon and Betty A. Reardon and Asha Hans

The book asserts that human security derives from the experience and expectation of human well-being which depends on four essential conditions: a life sustaining environment, the meeting of essential physical needs, respect for the identity and dignity of persons and groups, protection from avoidable harm and expectations of remedy from them. The book demonstrates their integral relationship to human security. Patriarchy being the germinal paradigm...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415585775
• ISBN13: 9780415585774
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"