Human rights and the global politics of resistance: Feminist perspectives

Review of International Studies

Volumn 29, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 161-180+1

  Robinson, Fiona ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 12144291507     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026021050300593X     Document Type: Review

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7. Ibid., p. 22.
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9. Ibid., p. 4.
10. Ibid., p. 1.
11. Ibid., p. 2.
12. Mary Kaldor, 'Transnational Civil Society', in Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler (eds.), Human Rights in Global Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 195.
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14. Ibid., p. 221.
15. See Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Anne Marie Clark, Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
16. See Thomas Risse, Stephen C. Ropp and Kathryn Sikkink (eds.), The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Anne Marie Clark, Diplomacy of Conscience: Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
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22. Ibid., p. 126.
23. I b i d.
24. Ibid., p. 4.
25. Ibid., p. 126.
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27. Kaldor, 'Transnational Civil Society', p. 195, emphasis added.
28. Shaw, 'Global Voices', p. 221.
29. Kaldor, 'Transnational Civil Society', pp. 210-11.
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35. I b i d.
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40. I b i d.
41. Spivak, 'Cultural Talks', p. 333.
42. I b i d.
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47. Ibid., pp. 369-71. While rape of women during war has recently been recognised by the International Criminal Court as a war crime, for centuries it was regarded as a regrettable yet inevitable 'by-product' of war, rather than a particularly gendered violation of women not as 'human beings', but as women.
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50. Ibid., p. xiii.
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52. Ibid., p. 165,
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55. I b i d.
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58. Ibid., p. 108.
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60. Ibid., p. 61.
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63. I b i d.
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65. Ibid., pp. 442-3.
66. Ibid., p. 445.
67. I b i d.
68. Ibid., pp. 448-9.
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70. Ibid., p. 128.
71. Guzman Bouvard, Women Reshaping Human Rights, p. x.
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74. Ibid., p. 526.
75. Kiss, 'Alchemy or Fool's Gold?', p. 11.
76. Ibid., p. 3.
77. See especially Shaw, 'Global Voices', and Kaldor, 'Transnational Civil Society'.
78. Kaldor, 'Transnational Civil Society', pp. 208-9.