Penelope Andrews (City University of New York – CUNY School of Law) has posted Women’s Human Rights and the Conversation Across Cultures (Albany Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 2, 2003) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This comment examines the vision of women’s rights and equality as outlined in CEDAW. It raises some of the possibilities and limitations associated with universalizing legal norms in a context of enormous global disparities, particularly in material and cultural terms.