Amnesty International and Women's Rights Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances

• Yazar: Ganzfried, Miriam (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
• Seri Bilgileri: Edition Politik
• Konular: Human rights; Gender studies, gender groups; Demonstrations & protest movements; Amnesty International; Women's Rights; Human Rights Organizations; Networks; Civil Society; Politics; Law; Human Rights; Gender Studies; Social Movements; Political Science
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive material from the Swiss and the German AI sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase its work on women's rights. Additionally, the book demonstrates that, despite the leadership's commitment to the Stop Violence Against Women campaign, internal resistance hampered the integration of women's rights into the organization's overall work.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (320 p.)

ISBN

9783839460085
9783837660081

Erişim

Open Access