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Globalizing Women’s Rights: Overcoming the Apartheid

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, mpl54here{at}yahoo.com

This article deals with the empirical example of how social subjects, in this case women, have appropriated the language of rights in order to demand social inclusion. Since there are many different points of view in feminist theory with regard to how to deal with the idea of women’s rights, this article is divided into three sections. In the first section, I focus on how some important normative contents about democracy and rights have already been accepted by many different theorists who speak from critical perspectives. In the second section, I deal with how women’s struggles have gained consensus about the importance of defending the idea of rights for their own struggles to overcome their exclusion. In the third and last section, I turn back to the theoretical efforts by leading feminists, in order to show how these struggles from women all over the world can be thematized in our global scenario

Key Words: cultural wars • fourth-wave feminism and rights of participation • global democratic rights • multiculturalism • social inclusion • womens rights

Thesis Eleven, Vol. 78, No. 1, 61-84 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0725513604044547


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