Gender and human rights

Gender and Human Rights takes three sets of ideas basic to women's international human rights law - ideas about feminism, about rights and how they operate, and about the organization of international society - and explores these ideas and the relationships between them from a variety of interdisciplinary and legal perspectives, including through notions of citizenship, queer theory, philosophies of rights, post-colonialism, and migration studies, and via such areas of law as constitutional and humanitarian law. The collection thus encourages us to revisit some of the fundamentals of women's international human rights law: to consider hard questions about core concepts, to re-evaluate accepted methods, to probe the limits of central paradigms, and to ask where familiar critiques may ultimately lead. Part of the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, the volume features a number of authors and themes based in Europe. As a contribution to a women's international human rights literature that has often concentrated on the portability of a few Western-inspired feminist approaches and struggled to make visible a range of non-Western alternatives, this collection seeks to illustrate that, on the Western side, there are many different European perspectives on gender and human rights. Indeed, there are many different Europes: among them, a historical, imperial Europe, the multicultural Europe to which the European Union aspires, and a contemporary Europe redefined by transmigration. The encounters within each of these Europes are shown to hold important lessons for key issues of gender and human rights. Contributors: Karen Knop (University of Toronto), Nicola Lacey (London School of Economics), Janet Halley (Harvard Law School), Susanne Baer (Humboldt University, Berlin), Ruth Rubio-Marin (University of Seville, Spain), Martha Morgan (University of Alabama), Patricia Viseur Sellers (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia), Nathaniel Berman (Brooklyn Law School), and Ruba Salih (University of Bologna, Italy).