Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index.
Introduction -- 'Ain't I a Human?': The Inadequacy of a Civil Rights Legislation as a Remedy to Women's Human Rights Violations -- The Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women: Radical Notions of Human Being? -- Globalizing Concern for Women's Human Rights: Reconceiving the Terms of the Discourse -- Conclusion -- Index.
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The United States is a liberal democratic state founded upon ideals of freedom and equality, thus the history of non-ratification of major international human rights treaties appears to be an anomaly. This book suggests that it is not. Liberal democracy, as it was conceived and has developed in the United States, is a problematic model in the globalization of concern for women's human rights. This study is not a comparative examination of state exclusion and oppression of women. Neither is it an attempt to distinguish the United States in the larger sense from other Western liberal democratic.
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