Women's Human Rights and Culture

Foreword/Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
1.1 Culture blockin the implementation of women's human rights
1.2 The human rights approach to culture
1.3 Women's human rights and the development of women
1.4 The audience we intend to reach

2. Women's Human Rights
2.1 The normative nature and legal stature of human rights
2.2 The human rights of women as laid down in CEDAW
2.3 Article 5 CEDAW
2.4 CEDAW's commitment to changing discriminatory cultures
2.5 The right to culture and its limits

3. Culture and Gender
3.1 Culture and identity
3.2 Culture and gender
3.3 Essentialist approaches to culture and gender
3.4 A special place for religion within culture?

4. From a Firm Deadlock to a Fruitful Dialogue
4.1 The necessity and the boundaries of a dialogue
4.2 Structural barriers to accepting women's human rights
4.3 Possible responses to the resistance against cultural change
4.4 Some final remarks

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