Visions and Revisions: Women and the Power to Change

This final panel, summing up and looking ahead at the end of the First NWSA Convention, borrowed part of its title from the collection of essays on feminism and education Women and the Power to Change [1975]. Contributors to that volume, and other writer-organizers joining them here, were asked to reflect on their work of the early \u2770s and to offer their analyses—and their visions—for the \u2780s

The Virtual Sociality of Rights: The Case of Women\u27s Rights are Human Rights

This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for women\u27s rights as human rights as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call knowledge professionals self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of rights and a reimagination of rights as rights talk proved to be such fertile ground for academic scholarship did the same rights prove to be an equally fertile ground for activist networking and lobbying activities? The paper answers this question with respect to the work of self-reflexivity in creating a virtual sociality of rights

Feminism and Human Rights: The Legacy of Vienna

La Conférence mondiale des Nations Unies sur les droits humains tenue à Vienne en 1993 a reconnu mondialement que «les droits des femmes sont des droits humains». Cette affirmation des droits universels des femmes et en particulier de l’identification de la violence faite aux femmes ont été un point crucial sur l’agenda de la Déclaration des droits humains et du programme d’action à Vienne. On a aussi initié un processus d’intégration des femmes dans une perspective genrée dans une pratique des droits humains qui est en cours. Cet article examine les organismes de femmes depuis la conférence de Vienne et les gains mis en place pour normaliser les droits humains en général et surtout pour contrer la violence sexuelle