Promoting women's rights against patriarchal cultural claims: The women's convention and reservations by Muslim states

Human Rights and Diversity: Area Studies Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 231-251

  Arat, Zehra F Kabasakal ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b American Political Science Association   (United States)

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