Gender, Planning and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415154949 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 192 str.

Tovi Fenster

Opis

Explores the geographies and spatialities of human rights with particular emphasis on the connections between gender and human rights in planning and development. Challlenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the text argues that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit. Case studies examine the significance of these components in various countries with multi-cultured societies, and identify ways to integrate human rights issues in planning, development and policy making. The book begins by highlighting the relationships between gender, planning and human rights through a literature review on each of the themes and by making methodological connections. The second section highlights notions of power and control as dominant factors in planning, analyzing the relationships between gender, planning and human rights using case studies from the UK, Israel, Canada and Singapore.

Recenzje

"this book is exceptionally innovative in the manner in which it introduces the issue of human rights from a geographical perspective...well-written and provides a stimulating read thanks to its clear contextualisations, its in-depth research into case-studies, and its extensive references and up-to-date bibliography" Regional Studies Vol 33. 8

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Gender and Human Rights, Tovi Fenster; Part 2 Gender, Planning and Human Rights; Chapter 2 Women, Planning and Local Central Relations in the UK, Jo Little; Chapter 3 Culture, Human Rights and Planning (As Control) for Minority Women in Israel, Tovi Fenster; Chapter 4 Intersecting Claims, Marcia Wallace, Beth Moore Milroy; Chapter 5 The Gender Inequalities of Planning in Singapore, Gillian Davidson; Part 3 Gender, Development and Policy-Making Within the Human Rights Context; Chapter 6 Households, Violence and Women’s Economic Rights, Ann M. Oberhauser; Chapter 7 Gender, Informal Employment and the Right to Productive Resources, Maureen Hays-Mitchell; Chapter 8 Gender, Migrants and Rights in the European Union, Eleonore Kofman; Chapter 9 Does Cultural Survival have a Gender?, Deborah Bird Rose; Chapter 10 Women and Human Rights in Post-Communist Countries, Ji?ina Šiklová; Part 4 Conclusion; Chapter 11 Gender, Planning and Human Rights, Tovi Fenster;

O autorze

Tovi Fenster is a lecturer in Geography and Planning at Tel Aviv University, Israel.