Frontiers of Gender Equality introduces new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and explains the multiple dimensions of gender equality. The book provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national and international contexts and suggests areas of future research.

In Defensive Relativism, Frederick Cowell argues that defensive relativism is a variety of tactical argument used by states to justify ignoring international human rights law and that it is a reflection of unresolved tensions about the nature of what it means for rights to be universal.