Anne-Marie Hilsdon is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology, Martha Macintyre is Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, Vera Mackie is Foundation Professor of Japanese Studies, at Curtin University, Australia, Maila Stivens is Director of Women's Studies, both based at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, MailaStivens; Chapter 2 Sexual violence, silence, and human rights discourse, VeraMackie; Chapter 3 The state and the women's movement, KalpanaRam; Chapter 4 Dead daughters, dissident sons, and human rights in China, AntoniaFinnane; Chapter 5 The human rights of gendered citizens, KrishnaSen; Chapter 6 Woman ikat raet long human raet o no?, MargaretJolly; Chapter 7 ‘Hear us, women of Papua New Guinea!’, MarthaMacintyre; Chapter 8 The Contemplacion fiasco, Anne-MarieHilsdon; Chapter 9 Mothers of the disappeared in the diaspora, BerylLanger; Chapter 10 The emergence of ‘modern’ gay identities and the question of human rights, DennisAltman; Index;

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