Multiculturalism versus Women's Rights Conflicts: Intersectionality and the State in South Africa

Family values? Sexism and heteronormativity in Feminist Evolutionary Analytic (FEA) research

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s026021051800044x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 260-279 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Helen M. Kinsella ◽

Laura Sjoberg

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Women's Rights ◽

Government Regulation ◽

Family Values ◽

The State ◽

Security Studies ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Male Violence ◽

Security Research ◽

Sex And Sexuality

AbstractIn this article, we focus on the subset of evolutionary theorising self-identified as Feminist Evolutionary Analytic (FEA) within security studies and International Relations. We offer this accounting in four sections. First, we provide a brief overview of the argument that reproductive interests are the ‘origins’ of international violence. Second, we break down the definitions of gender, sex, and sexuality used in evolutionary work in security studies generally and in FEA specifically, demonstrating a lack of complexity in FEA’s accounts of the potential relations among the three and critiquing their essentialist heteronormative assumptions. Third, we argue that FEA’s failure to reflect on the history and context of evolutionary theorising, much less contemporary feminist critiques, facilitates its forwarding of the state and institutions as primarily neutral and corrective bulwarks against male violence. Fourth, we conclude by outlining what is at stake if we fail to correct for this direction in feminist, IR, and security research. We argue that FEA work misrepresents and narrows the potential for understanding and responding to violence, facilitating the continued instrumentalisation of women’s rights, increased government regulation of sexuality, and a more expansive form of militarism.

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Protecting Women’s Rights And Freedoms In Uzbekistan

The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations ◽

10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue04-53 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 03 (04) ◽

pp. 353-358

Author(s):

Marguba Makhsudovna Nosirova ◽

Keyword(s):

Women's Rights ◽

Large Scale ◽

The State ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Gender Policy ◽

Participation Of Women ◽

The World ◽

State Programs

This article deals with the situation with violations of women's rights and freedoms in the world in recent years and the increase in violence against them during the COVID-19 pandemic, measures taken in our country on gender policy, a number of presidential decrees. The large-scale work on increasing the participation of women in society and the state, based on the tasks set out in the state programs and responded also was analyzed.

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Women’s Constitutional Rights

10.1093/oso/9780192893925.003.0007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 176-212

Author(s):

Berihun Adugna Gebeye

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Human Rights ◽

Women's Rights ◽

Cultural Relativism ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

Substantive Content ◽

General Investigation ◽

Standard Of Comparison ◽

Design And Practice

This chapter explains how legal syncretism influences and manifests itself in the design and practice of constitutional rights—with a particular focus on women’s rights—in the constitutional systems of Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia. The chapter demonstrates how the interaction between the liberal and indigenous conceptions of rights in a constitutional space produces unique regimes of women’s rights in these countries. The chapter first presents a brief theory of women’s rights as a standard of comparison and evaluation; this is done through a more general investigation of women’s rights in international law. This is then followed by a more focused discussion of women’s constitutional rights in Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia. Such discussion explores the substantive content and the way in which women’s rights are constitutionalized, as well as their practical and judicial applications. The syncretic nature of women’s rights in these countries sheds some light on the importance of looking beyond the universalism versus cultural relativism debate when trying to enforce human rights in Africa.

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