Gender and Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926091-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law

In this book feminist scholars from a range of areas including international law, rights, citizenship, queer theory, constitutional law and migration studies bring fresh perspectives to gender and human rights.

The growth of the women's international human rights movement worldwide and its emergence as a field of study has led to a valuable but increasingly self-contained literature, often cut off from developments in feminist legal theory, on the one hand, and

1. Introduction; 2. Feminist Legal Therory and the Rights of Women; 3. Take a Break from Feminism?; 4. Citizenship in Europe and the Construction of Gender by Law in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights; 5. Constitutional Domestication of International Gender Norms: Categorizations, Illustrations, and reflections from the Nearside of the Bridge; 6. Individual(s') Liability for Collective Sexual Violence; 7. 'The Appeals of the Orient': Colonized Desire and the War of the Riff; 8. Toward an Understanding of Transnationalism and Gender

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knop, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Knop is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies, New York University School of Law. As rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Feminism and International Law, she was responsible for the ILA's report on gender and nationality (2000).