The Unfinished revolution: voices from the global fight for women's rights

Abstract

Foreword: A historic moment for women's rights ~ Christiane Amanpour Introduction: Revolutions and Rights ~ Minky Worden PART ONE: A revolution in thinking: women's rights are human rights: The Shoulders we stand on: Eleanor Roosevelt and roots of the women's rights revolution ~ Ellen Chesler How women's rights became recognized as human rights ~ Charlotte Bunch Technology's quiet revolution for women ~ Isobel Coleman PART TWO: Revolutions and transitions: Islamic law and the revolution against women ~ Shirin Ebadi A civil society-led revolution? Promoting civil society and women's rights in the Middle East ~ Sussan Tahmasebi After the Arab spring, mobilizing for change in Egypt ~ Esraa Abdel Fattah and Sarah J. Robbins Women in Iraq: losing ground ~ Samer Muscati Saudi women's struggle ~ Christoph Wilcke PART THREE: Conflict zones: Devastating remnants of war: the impact of armed conflict on women and girls ~ Jody Williams Under siege in Somalia ~ Hawa Abdi and Sarah J. Robbins Confronting rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo ~ Anneke Van Woudenberg I was sold twice: harmful traditional practices in Afghanistan ~ Georgette Gagnon Letters in the night: closing space for women and girls in Afghanistan ~ Rachel Reid PART FOUR: The economies of rights: education, work and property: Unequal in Africa: how property rights can empower women ~ Janet Walsh Cleaning house: the growing movement for domestic workers' rights ~ Nisha Varia Ending trafficking of women and girls ~ Mark P. Lagon Do no harm: post-traffiking abuses ~ Elaine Pearson PART FIVE: Violence against women: A needed revolution: testing rape kits and US justice ~ Sarah Tofte Violence against immigrant women in the United States ~ Meghan Rhoad Behind closed doors: domestic violence in Europe ~ Gauri van Gulik PART SIX: Women and health: Maternal mortality: ending needless deaths in childbirth ~ Aruna Kashyap PHOTO ESSAYS: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION IN IMAGES Lasting wounds: female genital mutilation ~ Nadya Khalife Fistula: giving birth and living death in Africa ~ Agnes Odhiambo Fatal consequences: women, abortion and power in Latin America ~ Marianne Mollmann PART SEVEN: Political constraints and harmful traditions: Claiming women's rights in China ~ Sharon K. Hom A long march for women's rights in China ~ Sheridan Prasso Girls not brides ~ Graca Machel and Mary Robinson Damned if you do, damned if you don't: religious dress and women's rights ~ Judith Sunderland PART EIGHT: The next frontier: a road map to rights: Funding an unfinished revolution ~ Gara LaMarche The challenge of changing the world for women ~ Liesl Gerntholtz Afterword: The revolution continues ~ Dorothy Q. Thomas.