A new display entitled Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Global Issues features works on the issue of human rights and women’s rights in the developing world. All of the included books come from OISE’s Women’s Education Resources Collection (WERC). Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Global Issues coincides with the closing of the Women’s Human Rights Educational Institute, a five-week course held at OISE on peace, human rights, and development from a feminist and activist perspective.
The display includes works from a variety of perspectives on a number of topics, including sexuality, religion, and reproductive health. Examples include Development with a body: Sexuality, human rights and development by Cornwall, Correa, and Jolly, and Unspoken rules: Sexual orientation and women’s human rights by Rosenbloom. Some of the titles use a broad economic or social analysis to address the relationship between gender and democracy, such as Developing power: How women transformed international development by Fraser and Tinker.
A range of geographical viewpoints are represented in the display’s collection. Included are Critical chatter: Women and human rights in South East Asia by Lambert, Pickering, and Alder, and Gender and human rights politics in Japan: Global norms and domestic networks by Chan-Tiberghien. A number of titles address Islam and the Middle East, such as Crossing the red line: the struggle for human rights in Iran by Kar, and Between feminism and Islam: Human rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Salime.
First-hand accounts of the struggle for women’s rights are included in the form of biographies and oral histories. For example, see The granddaughters of Ixmucan?: Guatemalan women speak, as told to Smith-Ayala, and Ernestine L. Rose, women’s rights pioneer, by Suhl.
Everything in the display case is available to borrow. Please see the circulation desk on the main floor for assistance.