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Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala
Young Women And Urbanization - Trying To Cope In Crowded Cities, Matilda Arvidsson, Lucia Kiwala
Dr Matilda Arvidsson
The article pins down problems of urbanization, poverty, and youth at risk, focusing on the situation of young women in African slums.
Embracing Complexity : Human Rights In Critical Race Feminist Perspective, Hope Lewis
Embracing Complexity : Human Rights In Critical Race Feminist Perspective, Hope Lewis
Hope Lewis
Although the voices of "women of all colors" have furthered the goals and norms of feminist human rights scholarship, the voices of women of color and Third World women have often been rejected, ignored, or otherwise made invisible. Critical Race Feminist and other multicultural approaches to legal scholarship attempt to unite such voices and reveal their experiences and perspectives in feminist human rights discourse. This Article hypothesizes that Critical Race Feminist will make important contributions to the overall international human rights agenda. It identifies four common themes in a feminist multicultural approach to human rights scholarship: (1) the recognition that …