Human Rights and Gender Politics

Anne-Marie Hilsdon is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology and Vera Mackie is Foundation Professor of Japanese Studies, at Curtin University, Australia. Martha Macintyre is Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology and Maila Stivens is Director of Women’s Studies, both based at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Maila Stivens; Chapter 2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse, Vera Mackie; Chapter 3 The state and the women’s movement, Kalpana Ram; Chapter 4 Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China, Antonia Finnane; Chapter 5 The human rights of gendered citizens, Krishna Sen; Chapter 6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?, Margaret Jolly; Chapter 7 ‘Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!’, Martha Macintyre; Chapter 8 The Contemplacion fiasco, Anne-Marie Hilsdon; Chapter 9 Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora, Beryl Langer; Chapter 10 The emergence of ‘modern’ gay identities and the question of human rights, Dennis Altman;