Education
Molyneux studied sociology at the University of Essex and is now Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of the Americas, University College London.
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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
(This volume assesses one of the most important developmen...)
This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/033394948X/?tag=2022091-20
Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs (Viewpoints) by Maxine Molyneux (2003-10-13)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FEPNGX8/?tag=2022091-20
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
(This volume assesses one of the most important developmen...)
This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1349427004/?tag=2022091-20
Maxine Molyneux
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That women"s interests and gender interests are different categories is the discovery for which Maxine Molyneux is most frequently cited. Her focus is women"s movements and her central question is how they and the state influence each other. Interests and law are the categories under which she examines the changeable and shapeable relationship of the gender order and the state.
She wants to bring back the state and the political subject into the thinking on modernisation, democratisation and development.
She is also a consultant to several United Nations organisations, as well as to Oxfam and other Non-governmental organizations. Molyneux was married to the late Professor Fred Halliday, with whom she had a son, Alex.
Works
book
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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
(This volume assesses one of the most important developmen...)
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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
(This volume assesses one of the most important developmen...)
- Doing the Rights Thing: Rights-Based Development and Latin American NGOs (Viewpoints) by Maxine Molyneux (2003-10-13)
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Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America (Women's Studies at York Series)
Politics
Her research, as well the influential distinction between gender needs and interests, deals with such subjects as society and development, poverty and social inequality, and gender and politics in Latin America. As co-founder in 1979 of the noted magazine Feminist Review and an editor of the magazine Economy and Society, she is involved in the further development of debates on theory.
