Introduction: Gender politics and the reimagining of human rights in the Asia-Pacific

Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-36

  Stivens, Maila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203060209     Document Type: Editorial

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