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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Acronyms
Foreword: Christiane Amanpour - A Historic Moment for Women’s Rights
Introduction: Minky Worden - Revolutions and Rights
Part 1: A Revolution in Thinking: Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Chapter 1: Ellen Chesler - The Shoulders We Stand On: Eleanor Roosevelt and Roots of the Women’s Rights Revolution
Chapter 2: Charlotte Bunch - How Women’s Rights Became Recognized as Human Rights
Chapter 3: Isobel Coleman - Technology’s Quiet Revolution for Women
Part 2: Revolutions and Transitions
Chapter 4: Shirin Ebadi - Islamic Law and the Revolution Against Women
Chapter 5: Sussan Tahmasebi - A Civil Society-Led Revolution? Promoting Civil Society and Women’s Rights in the Middle East
Chapter 6: Esraa Abdel Fattah with Sarah J. Robbins - After the Arab Spring, Mobilizing for Change in Egypt
Chapter 7: Samer Muscati - Women in Iraq: Losing Ground
Chapter 8: Christoph Wilcke - Saudi Women’s Struggle
Part 3: Conflict Zones
Chapter 9: Jody Williams - Devastating Remnants of War: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Girls
Chapter 10: Dr. Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins - Under Siege in Somalia
Chapter 11: Anneke Van Woudenberg - Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chapter 12: Georgette Gagnon - “I Was Sold Twice”: Harmful Traditional Practices in Afghanistan
Chapter 13: Rachel Reid - Letters in the Night: Closing Space for Women and Girls in Afghanistan
Part 4: The Economies of Rights: Education, Work, and Property
Chapter 14: Janet Walsh - Unequal in Africa: How Property Rights Can Empower Women
Chapter 15: Nisha Varia - Cleaning House: The Growing Movement for Domestic Workers’ Rights
Chapter 16: Mark P. Lagon - Ending Trafficking of Women and Girls
Chapter 17: Elaine Pearson - Do No Harm: “Post-Trafficking” Abuses
Part 5: Violence against Women
Chapter 18: Sarah Tofte - A Needed Revolution: Testing Rape Kits and US Justice
Chapter 19: Meghan Rhoad - Violence Against Immigrant Women in the United States
Chapter 20: Gauri van Gulik - Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Europe
Part 6: Women and Health
Chapter 21: Aruna Kashyap - Maternal Mortality: Ending Needless Deaths in Childbirth
Photo Essays: The Unfinished Revolution in Images
Chapter 22: Nadya Khalife - Lasting Wounds: Female Genital Mutilation
Chapter 23: Agnes Odhiambo - Fistula: Giving Birth and Living Death in Africa
Chapter 24: Marianne Mollmann - Fatal Consequences: Women, Abortion, and Power in Latin America
Part 7: Political Constraints and Harmful Traditions
Chapter 25: Sharon K. Hom - Claiming Women’s Rights in China
Chapter 26: Sheridan Prasso - A Long March for Women’s Rights in China
Chapter 27: Graça Machel and Mary Robinson - Girls Not Brides
Chapter 28: Judith Sunderland - Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Religious Dress and Women’s Rights
Part 8: The Next Frontier: A Road Map to Rights
Chapter 29: Gara LaMarche - Funding an Unfinished Revolution
Chapter 30: Liesl Gerntholtz - The Challenge of Changing the World for Women
Afterword: Dorothy Q. Thomas - The Revolution Continues
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Acknowledgments
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