Women's Rights and Political Economy

Headings: 
Applying International Human Rights Law
Civil and political rights
Authors: 
Lothian, Tamara
Title: 
Women's Rights and Political Economy
Title of Journal: 
CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Journal Citation: 
12 CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 67-76 (1996)
URL: 
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P
There are two dilemmas relating to group politics and group movements which create two dilemmas. The first dilemma is the problem of incorporation. For a marginal group, the struggle for greater power, privilege or autonomy, typically takes the form of a quest for incorporation into the existing social order. Benefits generated by the strategy are disproportionately captured by elites within the group by corporate and professional elites best able to capture and deploy the instruments of group preferment. The second dilemma associated with the rise of group politics stems from the tension between the defense of group interests and the debate over institutional alternatives. The author suggests that the framework requires a more inclusive agenda that does not just appeal to a privileged few by collaborating in the development of institutional ideas and in defense of institutional positions that respond to women’s needs.