Violence against women under international human rights law / Alice Edwards.
2011
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Violence against women under international human rights law / Alice Edwards.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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1 online resource (xxxiii, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Introduction
Feminist theories on international law and human rights
The international human rights treaty system: practice and procedure
Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
The right to life
Conundrums, paradoxes, and continuing inequality: revisiting feminist narratives
Strategising next steps: treaty body reform and humanising women.
Feminist theories on international law and human rights
The international human rights treaty system: practice and procedure
Equality and non-discrimination on the basis of sex
Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
The right to life
Conundrums, paradoxes, and continuing inequality: revisiting feminist narratives
Strategising next steps: treaty body reform and humanising women.
Summary
Since the mid-1990s, increasing international attention has been paid to the issue of violence against women. However, there is still no explicit international human rights treaty prohibition on violence against women and the issue remains poorly defined and understood under international human rights law. Drawing on feminist theories of international law and human rights, this critical examination of the United Nations' legal approaches to violence against women analyses the merits of strategies which incorporate women's concerns of violence within existing human rights norms such as equality norms, the right to life, and the prohibition against torture. Although feminist strategies of inclusion have been necessary as well as symbolically powerful for women, the book argues that they also carry their own problems and limitations, prevent a more radical transformation of the human rights system, and ultimately reinforce the unequal position of women under international law.
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Cambridge Core.
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English
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9780511779671 ebook
9780521767132 (hardback)
9781107617445 (paperback)
9780521767132 (hardback)
9781107617445 (paperback)
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