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This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas about the family and sexuality intersected with thinking about human rights, for example, through new international law and international institutions; social movements targeting issues related to religion, gender, and sexuality; historical developments such as war and the collapse of empires; and, developments in the social sciences. It features case studies on regions around the globe, as well as on relevant international organisations and individuals who have been influential in this area. In doing so, the contributors to this collection interrogate the relationship between human rights related to the family, and broader debates about rights related to gender and sexuality.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction; Julia Moses.- Part I. Early Contexts and Discussions.- Chapter 2. Family First: Power, Inequality, and the Law from Early Modern to Modern Europe; Milo Vec.- Chapter 3. The Domestication of Global Governance: Women and Children as International Concerns during the Interwar Period; Regula Ludi.- Chapter 4. French Catholicism, the Family, and the Origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Marco Duranti.- Chapter 5. The Right to the Family and Freedom of Movement: Challenging Migration Restrictions during the Cold War; Jannis Panagiotidis.- Part II. Women s Rights as Human Rights.- Chapter 6. Domestic Violence under State Socialism in Europe: Emancipating Women, Abetting Perpetrators; Maria Bucur.- Chapter 7. Postcolonial Tensions of Equality at the United Nations: Negotiating the Familial and the International in African Gender Politics of Human Rights; Giusi Russo.- Chapter 8. Muslim Family Laws, Human Rights, and Women s Rights, 1945-2016; Yüksel Sezgin.- Chapter 9. Negotiating CEDAW: How Unmarried Women were Left Out of the Convention; Mariana Castrellón.- Part III. Reproductive, Sexuality, and Children s Rights.- Chapter 10. Human Rights, the Family, and Queer Internationalism: Challenging Colonialities, Revising the History of Sexual Rights; Matthew Waites.- Chapter 11. A History of the 'Family' in the United Nations' Disability Policies since the 1970s; Paul van Trigt.- Chapter 12. 'In the Name of the Nuclear Family'? Reproductive Decision-Making and Human Rights Discourse in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Isabel Heinemann.- Chapter 13. Constructing the Family: Human Rights and Adoption; Alice Hearst.
About the author
Julia Moses is Professor in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, in the UK. Recent works include The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States (2018); ed. (with J. Woesthoff) Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries (2021); and ed. Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017).
Summary
This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas about the family and sexuality intersected with thinking about human rights, for example, through new international law and international institutions; social movements targeting issues related to religion, gender, and sexuality; historical developments such as war and the collapse of empires; and, developments in the social sciences. It features case studies on regions around the globe, as well as on relevant international organisations and individuals who have been influential in this area. In doing so, the contributors to this collection interrogate the relationship between human rights related to the family, and broader debates about rights related to gender and sexuality.
