Women reshaping human rights

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Women have long been active in the struggle for human rights: in the Resistance during World War II; in rebellion against authoritarian governments; and in seeking environmental justice and cultural equality around the world. Yet often their accomplishments have remained unrecognized. In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood. Professor Marguerite Bouvard provides a complete biography of every activist. The stage is thus set for each individual, who recounts real-life tales of courage that force us to ask what each of us must do in the fight for justice and dignity.

subjects: Biography,  Human rights,  Civil rights,  Women human rights workers,  Women civil rights workers,  Political Freedom & Security,  Political,  Vrouwen,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Mensenrechten,  Women social reformers,  Droits de l'homme (Droit international),  Défenseuses des droits de l'homme,  Biographies,  Menschenrechtlerin,  Biografie,  Women human rights workers--biography,  Women civil rights workers--biography,  Jc571 .b6735 1996,  323/.092/2 b