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Zusatztext [A] brilliant collection of essays...the essays in Knop's volume are essential reading for anyone interested in women's human rights - which, as the volume demonstrates, must include anyone interested in international human rights law. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. By relating women's international human rights to broader debates about feminism, rights and international society, this collection of essays both provides a sophisticated introduction to gender and human rights and offers a variety of fresh theoretical perspectives and methods. Zusammenfassung Focuses on various perspectives to gender and human rights. By relating women's international human rights to broader debates about feminism, rights and international society, this collection of essays both provides a sophisticated introduction to gender and human rights and offers a variety of theoretical perspectives and methods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Karen Knop: Introduction 2: Nicola Lacey: Feminist Legal Therory and the Rights of Women 3: Janet Halley: Take a Break from Feminism? 4: Susanne Baer: Citizenship in Europe and the Construction of Gender by Law in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights 5: Ruth Rubio-Marín and Martha I. Morgan: Constitutional Domestication of International Gender Norms: Categorizations, Illustrations, and reflections from the Nearside of the Bridge 6: Patricia Viseur Sellers: Individual(s') Liability for Collective Sexual Violence 7: Nathaniel Berman: 'The Appeals of the Orient': Colonized Desire and the War of the Riff 8: Ruba Salih: Toward an Understanding of Transnationalism and Gender ...
