Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies - Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s-2020s

"Employing an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this book explores the inconsistent treatment of victims of involuntary sterilisation and castration in three Nordic countries over the last century. Using a vast range of primary and secondary sources, it investigates the development of rights and state responsibility"--

List of contents

Prologue: Eugenics and the control of reproduction and sexuality; Part I. Developing Rights and Wrongs; 1. Victims, harms and grievance formation; Part II. A Question of Rights; 2. A master frame of rights - involuntary sterilisation and castration in international law; 3. Sweden - Remedies with limited legal recognition of responsibility; 4. Norway - 'ethnic cleansing'?; 5. Finland --silence; Part III. Rights Framing and Grievance Formation; 6. From harms to remedies?; 7. Law and society in change; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Daniela Alaattinoğlu is an Icelandic Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Iceland and a Senior Researcher at the University of Turku. She has held visiting fellowships at the Åbo Akademi Institute for Human Rights, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the University of Melbourne. She is the co-editor of Contesting Feminicide: Feminism and the Power of Law Revisited (2019).

Summary

Employing an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this book explores the inconsistent treatment of victims of involuntary sterilisation and castration in three Nordic countries over the last century. Using a vast range of primary and secondary sources, it investigates the development of rights and state responsibility.

Foreword

Uses an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to explore Nordic states' varying treatment of victims of involuntary sterilisation and castration.

Product details

• Authors: Daniela Alaattino&287;lu, Daniela (University of Iceland Alaattinoglu, Daniela (University of Turku Alaattinoglu, Daniela Alaattinoğlu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781009171687
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0917168-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Law in Context
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Gender & the Law, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Gender & the law, International human rights law, Law and society, gender issues, Public international law, human rights: labour and social