Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socioeconomic Realities in Africa

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
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Introduction: Context(ure)s of Human Rights—Local Realities, Global Contexts....Pages 3-24
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Women, Religion, and Postmodernism....Pages 27-36
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Apartheid and Health Professional Accountability: Violations of the Reproductive Rights of Women....Pages 39-59
Take Me Back to the Village: African Women and the Dynamics of Health and Human Rights in Tanzania and Zimbabwe....Pages 61-79
The Right to Access to Reproductive Health Care in the South African Constitution: A Real Victory for Women?....Pages 81-109
Women from the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa in France: Fighting for Health and Basic Human Rights....Pages 111-128
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The Girl Child, African States, and International Human Rights Law—Toward a New Framework for Action....Pages 131-156
Poverty, Adolescent Sexuality, and the Shadow of AIDS: A Study of Female Motor Park Workers in Lagos, Nigeria....Pages 157-177
Sociocultural Barriers to the Education of Kenyan Girls: Gender Stereotyping and Sexual Violence in Secondary Schools....Pages 179-201
Readability of Children’s Rights Documents: The LIASSO Experience....Pages 203-220
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Understanding the Sociocultural and Traditional Context of Female Circumcision and the Impact of the Human Rights Discourse....Pages 223-247
Unveiling the Mask of Privacy: Protecting Survivors of Violence Against Women in Kenya....Pages 249-259
Prevalence of Wife Battering Among Workers in a Nigerian University: Issues in Women’s Rights....Pages 261-283
Female Genital Mutilation: Campaigns in Germany....Pages 285-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-314