concept underlay the tension in West Bengal accounts between activists’ practical attempts to achieve gender equality and prioritising organisations’ economic growth. This reflected perceptions that missions related to activists’ reducing income poverty had been over-emphasised compared with the broader visions of enhancing wellbeing. It has been speculated here that beneficiaries’ policy-makers in the area would benefit from a measure of situated representations of essentialised roles in society by developing multidimensional models of women’s the deployment of human rights and human rights as discussed earlier in women’s the chapter. The findings of this thesis feed into conversations about gender responsibilities and rights. Human rights and human rights were women’s women’s also represented as political tools with which to underpin a political community which reaffirms universal values. This is in line with (2013) view that what Phillips’s is human is political. The thesis develops this idea by combining it with the contention that gendered framing of these beneficiaries was as much a activists’ political representation as it was a cultural one. The thesis has argued that the implication of this argument is that the framing of empowerment within women’s both types of programmes targeted at women beneficiaries will need to reflect this political element. The thesis has argued that the function of human rights will need to address and be influenced by the interaction of the feminist political struggle and the underlying essentialist representations of the role of women in local contexts. The thesis thus provides a foundation for proposing a role for future research aimed at constructing a model which could be used by policy-makers and the scholarly community to assess situated experiences of the operationalisation of human rights and human rights frameworks. It does so by considering the relationships women’s between abstract ideals and codified articles, perceptions and agency and salient features in local contexts. This thesis is positioned within specific discourses in the global literature located in the sociology of human rights and cross-cultural feminism about deployment of the human rights and human activists’ women’s rights frameworks. Moreover, this thesis has made a contribution towards the understanding of the deployment of human rights from a sociological perspective. It has done so by forming a bridge from this discipline to concepts within postcolonial studies, feminist political theory, international relations and development, and feminism. It has also argued that future research is also to be directed at
concept underlay the tension in West Bengal activists’ accounts between organisations’ practical attempts to achieve gender equality and prioritising economic growth. This reflected activists’ perceptions that missions related to reducing income poverty had been over-emphasised compared with the broader visions of enhancing beneficiaries’ wellbeing. It has been speculated here that policy-makers in the area would benefit from a measure of situated representations of women’s essentialised roles in society by developing multidimensional models of the deployment of human rights and women’s human rights as discussed earlier in the chapter. The findings of this thesis feed into conversations about gender responsibilities and women’s rights. Human rights and women’s human rights were also represented as political tools with which to underpin a political community which reaffirms universal values. This is in line with Phillips’s (2013) view that what is human is political. The thesis develops this idea by combining it with the contention that activists’ gendered framing of these beneficiaries was as much a political representation as it was a cultural one. The thesis has argued that the implication of this argument is that the framing of women’s empowerment within both types of programmes targeted at women beneficiaries will need to reflect this political element. The thesis has argued that the function of human rights will need to address and be influenced by the interaction of the feminist political struggle and the underlying essentialist representations of the role of women in local contexts. The thesis thus provides a foundation for proposing a role for future research aimed at constructing a model which could be used by policy-makers and the scholarly community to assess situated experiences of the operationalisation of human rights and women’s human rights frameworks. It does so by considering the relationships between abstract ideals and codified articles, perceptions and agency and salient features in local contexts. This thesis is positioned within specific discourses in the global literature located in the sociology of human rights and cross-cultural feminism about activists’ deployment of the human rights and women’s human rights frameworks. Moreover, this thesis has made a contribution towards the understanding of the deployment of human rights from a sociological perspective. It has done so by forming a bridge from this discipline to concepts within postcolonial studies, feminist political theory, international relations and development, and feminism. It has also argued that future research is also to be directed at
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