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Zusatztext What unifies the essays is the belief that penalizing people because of their sex or sexual orientation is a serious human rights violation. Examining topics such as sexual autonomy, women's rights, rape, partnership rights, and public apologies, the contributors approach and respond to the issues raised by sex and sexual orientation discrimination in very different practical and theoretical ways, in part because of their diverse academic backgrounds . Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Bamforth is a Fellow in Law at The Queen's College, Oxford. Klappentext Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments! as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless! as the work of Amnesty International hasshown! violence against women (whatever their sexual orientation)! gay men! trans-gendered and transsexual persons remains an appallingly constant phenomenon! both in countries that have an official commitment to fighting these forms of discrimination and in those that do not. These essays seek to explore some of the inter-connections between human rights! gender! and sexuality. The contributors are united in their belief that it is a serious human rights violation unjustly to penalize people because of their sex or sexual orientation. Many difficult questions areconsidered. How do we understand and categorize human rights abuses related to a person's sex or sexual orientation! for example? Does their inclusion within the remit of human rights abuses require us to refine what we mean by human rights? What weight! if any! should be given to demands made inthe name of particular religious and cultural traditions which seek to restrict the rights of women and sexual minority groups? And how far have we come! and how far have we left to go! in the quest for a world in which discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation is a thing of the past? Zusammenfassung The 2002 volume of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures series. This volume seeks to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality; in particular, when considering the social position of women (straight or gay), gay men, trans-gendered and transsexual persons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Judith Butler (Introduced by Malcolm Bowie): On Being Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy 2: Susan Moller Okin (Introduced by David Miller): Women's Human Rights in the Late Twentieth Century: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 3: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: Women's Human Rights in the Third World 4: Alan Sinfield (Introduced by Christopher Robinson): Rape and Rights: Measure for Measure and the Limits of Cultural Imperialism 5: Rose George (Introduced by Michèle Le Doeuff): Share a Spliff, Share a Girl - Same Difference. The Unpleasant Reality of Gang Rape 6: Robert Wintemute (Introduced by Christopher McCrudden): From 'Sex Rights' to 'Love Rights': Partnership Rights as Human Rights 7: Marina Warner (Introduced by Roy Foster): Who's Sorry Now?: Personal Stories, Public Apologies ...
