Creating Human Rights–Now Available

Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World

Lisa S. Alfredson

328 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus.

Cloth Dec 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4125-9 | $69.95 | £45.50

A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Creating Human RightsThe first in-depth study of a novel women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to traditional conceptions of human rights. It illuminates keys to the movement's success, including, paradoxically, noncitizen politics, and uncovers critical implications for theories of human rights change. Read more . . .

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