Defying Convention: Us Resistance To The Un Treaty On Women's Rights (Problems Of International Politics)

To explain why the United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), this book highlights the emergence of the treaty in the context of the Cold War, the deeply partisan nature of women's rights issues in the United States, and basic disagreements about how human rights treaties work.

• • Author: Lisa Baldez
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Aug 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 250 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1107071488
• • ISBN-13: 9781107071483