Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics Ser.: Logics of Gender Justice : ...

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The Logics of Gender JusticeState Action on Women's Rights Around the World\nAuthor(s): Mala Htun, S. Laurel Weldon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108417563, 978-1108417563\nSynopsis\nWhen and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and activate different sets of protagonists. Change on violence against women and workplace equality involves a logic of status politics: feminist movements leverage international norms to contest women's subordination. Family law, abortion, and contraception, which challenge the historical claim of religious groups to regulate kinship and reproduction, conform to a logic of doctrinal politics, which turns on relations between religious groups and the state. Publicly-pa.