The politics of rights : dilemmas for feminist praxis / edited by Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux.

´This book has grown out of a workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies in September 2005 on Feminist perspectives on rights-based development´--Acknowledgements. - ´First published as a special issue of Third world quarterly´--Prelim.

Incluye bibliografía.

The politics of rights - dilemmas for feminist praxis: an introduction / Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux -- Ruling out gender equality? The post-cold war rule of law agenda in Sub-Sarharan Africa / Celestine Nyamu-Musembi -- Constitutional engineering: what opportunities for the enhancement of gender rights? / Georgina Waylen -- Islamic politics, human rights and women´s claims for equality in Iran / Shahra Razavi -- Legacies of common law: ´crimes of honour´ in India and Pakistan / Pratiksha Baxi, Shirin M. Rai and Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Hindu women´s property rights in India: a critical appraisal / Reena Patel -- Accessing economic and social rights under neoliberalism: gender and rights in Chile / Jasmine Gideon -- From the girl child to girls´ rights / Elisabeth J. Croll -- Revisiting equality as a right: the minimum age of marriage clause in the Nigerian Child Rights Act, 2003 / Nkoyo Toyo -- Rights and realities: limits to women´s rights and citizenship after 10 years of democracy in South Africa / Mary Hames -- Is the rights focus the right focus? Nicaraguan responses to the rights agenda / Sarah Bradshaw.