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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 …
Global Intersections : Critical Race Feminist Human Rights And Inter/National Black Women, Hope Lewis
Global Intersections : Critical Race Feminist Human Rights And Inter/National Black Women, Hope Lewis
Hope Lewis
Although there have been great strides in feminist human rights efforts in developing methods to prevent domestic violence and other forms of "private" violence against women, feminists still have far to go. For instance, feminists have only recently begun to acknowledge that physical, social, and economic violence against women, especially poor women of color, is perpetuated in part by top-down globalization. This Article demonstrates how Critical Race Feminist analysis, a set of approaches to legal scholarship rooted in feminist and anti-racist critical traditions, reconceptualizes the human rights problems facing Black women who migrate between the United States and Jamaica. Like …