Linda L. Veazey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Midwestern State University, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and a graduate, with M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, of the University of Southern California.
A new and insightful analysis of the usual meme that cultural rights in international law are at odds with the rights of women in affected societies. Rather than seeing these concepts as mutually exclusive, Linda Veazey frames cultural rights—through detailed case studies and analysis of law—in a way that incorporates and enriches the very gender-protective norms they are often thought to defeat.