| Description | | - The 2002 volume of the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures series
- Seeks to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality
- The authors are internationally distinguished writers from the areas of literature, social theory, law, and journalism
| Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless, as the work of Amnesty International has shown, violence against women (whatever their sexual orientation), gay men, trans-gendered and
transsexual persons remains an appallingly constant phenomenon, both in countries that have an official commitment to fighting these forms of discrimination and in those that do not. Violence is inflicted by private actors as well as - in many countries - by state officials, and is often justified by reference to local customs and moral values.
These essays, based on the 2002 Oxford Amnesty
Lectures, seek to explore some of the inter-connections between human rights, gender, and sexuality. Many difficult questions are considered. How do we understand and categorize human rights abuses related to a person's sex or sexual orientation, for example? Are these distinctive types of abuse, or are they both examples of the social enforcement of 'traditional' gender roles? Does their
inclusion within the remit of human rights abuses require us to refine what we mean by human rights? What weight, if any, should be given to demands made in the name of particular religious and cultural traditions which seek to restrict the rights of women and sexual minority groups? What role does the law have to play in combating these types of discrimination? And how far have we come, and how
far have we left to go, in the quest for a world in which discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation is a thing of the past?
The essays in this collection - written by internationally distinguished authors from a wide variety of disciplines - are united in their belief that it is a serious human rights violation unjustly to penalize people because of their sex or sexual orientation.
However, they adopt a wide variety of approaches to their subject-matter, and tackle the questions raised in very different ways. In consequence, they make important contributions to academic and practical debates about human rights, gender and sexuality.
The Oxford Amnesty Lectures is an internationally renowned lecture series that seeks to promote discussion about human rights, whether in
theory or in practice. |
Readership: Students and scholars of human rights, gender studies, and sexuality, human rights activists, those with a general interest in politics and human rights, and those concerned with questions of gender and sexuality.
| Contents |
Introduction
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Nicholas Bamforth, Queen's College, Oxford
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On Being Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy
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Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley
2.
Women's Human Rights in the Late Twentieth Century: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
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the late Susan Moller Okin, Stanford University
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Women's Human Rights in the Third World
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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Oxford University
4.
Rape and Rights: Measure for Measure and the Limits of Cultural Imperialism
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Alan Sinfield, Sussex University
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Share a Spliff, Share a Girl - Same Difference. The Unpleasant Reality of Gang Rape
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Rose George, a writer working in London
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From 'Sex Rights' to 'Love Rights': Partnership Rights as Human Rights
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Robert Wintemute, King's College London
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Who's Sorry Now?: Personal Stories, Public Apologies
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Marina Warner, a writer working in London
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Nicholas Bamforth, Fellow in Law, The Queen's College, Oxford
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