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Gender and Human Rights. Edited by Karen Knop. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 256. Index. £40, cloth; $50, £24.99, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Barbara Stark
Barbara Stark*
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Hofstra Law School
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Recent Books on International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 99 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 947 - 949
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 Henkin, Louis et al., Human Rights (1999).Google Scholar

2 Gender “mainstreaming” as adopted by the United Nations is a related, but distinct, phenomenon. For a scathing critique, see Charlesworth, Hillary, Not Waving but Drowning: Gender Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations, 18 Harv. Hum. Rts.J. 1 (2005).Google Scholar

3 Coomeraswamy, Radhika, Identity Within: Cultural Relativism, Minority Rights, and the Empowerment of Women, 34 Geo. Wash. Int’l. L. Rev. 483 (2002).Google Scholar It should be noted, however, that it is rarely the most vulnerable women, such as the women in the rape camps in Bosnia, who are making that equation.