REILLY BOOK OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE FOR 2010

Niamh Reilly's book, Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age (Polity Press), has been selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2010" by the American Library Association/CHOICE.

About the Award

Every year, CHOICE subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in CHOICE during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in CHOICE’s January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community.

In awarding Outstanding Academic Title status, the editors apply several criteria to reviewed titles:

• Overall excellence in presentation and scholarship
• Importance relative to other literature in the field
• Distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form
• Originality or uniqueness of treatment
• Value to undergraduate students
• Importance in building undergraduate library collections

In publishing the Outstanding Academic Titles feature, CHOICE acknowledges and honours the authors, editors, and publishers of these works for their vital contribution to the scholarly endeavour.

CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on CHOICE magazine and CHOICE Reviews Online for collection development and scholarly research. CHOICE reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States.

The full list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 is in CHOICE, v.48, no. 05 (January 2011).

About the Book

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age (Polity Press, 2009) explores the emergence of transnational, UN–oriented, feminist advocacy for women’s human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the movement and exposes how the Western, legalist, state-centric, and liberal biases of mainstream human rights discourse impede the realisation of human rights in women’s lives everywhere. Ultimately, Women’s Human Rights reaffirms a commitment to critically reinterpreted universal human rights principles and demonstrates the vital role that bottomup, transnational movements play in making them a reality in women’s lives.

About the Author

Niamh Reilly is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

She is the author of Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age (Polity Press, 2009) and has authored, co-authored, and edited a number of other books, including Women Testify: A Planning Guide for Popular Tribunals and Hearings (2005), State Accountability for Women's Human Rights in Ireland (1997), Without Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women’s Human Rights (1996), and Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights (1994).

She has over 20 years' experience of teaching, research, publishing and advocacy in the field of women's human rights at various institutions in Ireland and the United States and has worked with the United Nations and with a number of international and national women's and human rights NGOs. From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Reilly was a senior staff member at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University where she was coordinator of the first ever campaign of 16 Days of Action against Gender Violence and two international tribunals on women's human rights in Vienna (1993) and Beijing (1995). From 2001-2003 she was the director of Women's Human Rights Net, an online advocacy project.

Dr. Reilly was an independent gender and human rights expert on the Irish government's Joint NGO/Department of Foreign Affairs Standing Committee on Human Rights from 1997 to 1999. From 2004 to 2005 she served as a gender expert on Amnesty International's Stop Violence against Women (SVAW) Campaign. She currently represents the National Women's Council of Ireland on the Irish government's Consultative Group on Ireland's National Action Plan on UN Security Council 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

She is co-director of Global Women's Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).  Before arriving at NUIG, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Women's Studies and Politics at the University of Limerick and a UK Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster.

She has a PhD in Politics from Rutgers University and degrees from the University of Wisconsin and University College Dublin.

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