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Amnesty International and Women's Rights: Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances
[Dissertation]
Abstract 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, the author illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Thr... mehr
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, the author 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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Amnesty International; Frau; Menschenrechte; Bürgerrecht; nichtstaatliche Organisation; internationale Organisation; Organisationsstruktur
Klassifikation
Recht
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Human Rights Organizations; Law; Networks; Social Movements; Women's Rights
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
318 S.
Schriftenreihe
Edition Politik, 128
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460085
ISBN
978-3-8394-6008-5
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)