Gender issues and human rights
By: edited by Dianne Otto, Professor of Law, Director, Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) and Co-Director of IILAH, International Human Rights Law Programme, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
Series: Human rights law; Elgar Research Collection
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781849808309
Subjects: Women (International law); Women's rights
Description: "The 1990s witnessed a surge of feminist human rights scholarship and activism in international law which has shaped jurisprudential and institutional developments, yet gender issues and human rights still remains a topical and evolving field of study. In this collection, Professor Otto brings together seminal works which are united in their aim of challenging the existing gendered hierarchies of power, inequality and those natural foundations that have justified oppressive gender stereotypes. Included works cover, among others, the history and early developments of women's rights, structural critiques of international human rights law, recognizing new human rights, linking women's needs and human rights and thinking beyond the duality of gender"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-viii)