Gender and Human Rights

• Feminist scholars from a range of areas bring fresh perspectives to gender and human rights
• Addresses the fundamental questions of what feminist legal theory is, what rights are, who the subject of rights is and how a human rights document can be read in a gender-conscious way
• Explores issues such as the legal regulation of sexuality and prosecution of collective sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia

Readership: Academics in the field of international human rights law, and feminist legal analysis.

Karen Knop, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"[A] brilliant collection of essays...the essays in Knop's volume are essential reading for anyone interested in women's human rights - which, as the volume demonstrates, must include anyone interested in international human rights law." - Barbara Stark, American Journal of International Law

1: Karen Knop: Introduction
2: Nicola Lacey: Feminist Legal Therory and the Rights of Women
3: Janet Halley: Take a Break from Feminism?
4: Susanne Baer: Citizenship in Europe and the Construction of Gender by Law in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
5: Ruth Rubio-Marín and Martha I. Morgan: Constitutional Domestication of International Gender Norms: Categorizations, Illustrations, and reflections from the Nearside of the Bridge
6: Patricia Viseur Sellers: Individual(s') Liability for Collective Sexual Violence
7: Nathaniel Berman: 'The Appeals of the Orient': Colonized Desire and the War of the Riff
8: Ruba Salih: Toward an Understanding of Transnationalism and Gender