Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780367730840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Debra L. Delaet; Renée Ann Cramer

Opis

This volume examines the role of law as a tool for advancing women’s rights and gender equity in local, national, and global contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Spis treści

Introduction: Gender, Sexuality, and the Law  1. Lost in Legation: the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality in International Human Rights Law Governing Women’s Rights  2. What’s at Stake in the Treaty Reporting Process? Cuba and the United Nations’ Convention on Women’s Rights  3. Gender Politics and Geopolitics of International Criminal Law in Uganda  4. Spaces of International Gender Justice: A Reply to Baldez and DeLaet  5. Tacking Between the Global and the Local: A Reply to DeLaet and Bunting  6. What’s Law Got to Do with It?: A Reply to Baldez and Bunting  7. Attempting International Normative Change in Gender and the Law: A Reply to DeLaet, Baldez, and Bunting  8. ‘The Stigma of Western words’: Asylum Law, Transgender Identity and Sexual Orientation in South Africa  9. Gender, Sexuality, and the Right to a Non-Projected Future: a Reply to Camminga  10. Gender, Sexuality and the Limits of the Law  11. Wo/andering about Walls: A Reply to Elizabeth Mills  12. The Problem of Visibility in LGBT Human Rights: A Reply to Camminga and Mills  13. The Limits of Law in Securing Reproductive Freedoms: Midwife-Assisted Homebirth in the United States  14. Mothers Do Not Make Good Workers: The Role of Work/Life Balance Policies in Reinforcing Gendered Stereotypes  15. Embedded Exclusions: Exploring Gender Equality in Peru’s Participatory Democratic Framework  16. Gender, the Workplace and the Limits of the Law: A Reply to Cramer and Cote Hampson  17. Law’s Promises and its Limits: A Reply to Cramer and McNulty  18. Process is Insufficient: A Reply to Hampson and McNulty  19. Policymaking for Gender Equality: A Reply to Cramer, Cote Hampson, and McNulty

O autorze

Debra L. DeLaet is the David E. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Drake University, USA. She is the author of several books, numerous articles, and book chapters on human rights, global health, and global gender issues.

Renée Ann Cramer is Professor of Law, Politics, and Society at Drake University, USA. Since 2004, she has been engaged in ethnographic and participant-observation field work with homebirth midwives, advocates for midwifery, and families who have had out-of-hospital births.