Women's Human Rights: The International and Comparative Law Casebook

by Susan Ross and Susan Deller Ross

Book Overview

According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights as involving torture, extrajudicial killings, or cruel and degrading treatment--all clearly in violation of international human rights--and think those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220919
• ISBN13: 9780812220919
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"