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Author Shannon, Kelly J.

Title U.S. foreign policy and Muslim women's human rights / Kelly J. Shannon
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Battling the Veil: American Reactions to the Iranian Revolution; 2. Muslim Women in U.S. Public Discourse After 1979; 3. Sisterhood Is Global: Transnational Feminism and Islam; 4. The First Gulf War and Saudi ""Gender Apartheid; 5. Female Genital Mutilation and U.S. Policy in the 1990s; 6. The Taliban, Feminist Activism, and the Clinton Administration; 7. Muslim Women's Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 9/11; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy
Analysis Gender Studies
Human Rights
Law
Sociology
Women's Studies
Notes Print version record
Subject Muslim women -- Civil rights -- Islamic countries -- History -- 20th century
Muslim women -- Islamic countries -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women's rights -- Islamic countries -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
Diplomatic relations
Muslim women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Islamic countries -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century -- Social aspects
Subject Islamic countries
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 081229453X
9780812294538