Women Reshaping Human Rights
Author | : Marguerite Guzman Bouvard |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1996 |
ISBN-10 | : 0842025634 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780842025638 |
Rating | : 4/5 (638 Downloads) |
Download or read book Women Reshaping Human Rights written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women Reshaping Human Rights, ordinary - yet extraordinary - individuals tell their stories. Readers will meet Vera Laska, who joined the Resistance against the Nazis in Czechoslovakia; Dai Qing, who fights the Communist Party's grip upon the government in the People's Republic of China; and Juana Beatrice Gutierrez and the Mothers of East Los Angeles, who challenge drug dealers and toxic polluters threatening their neighborhood.