Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence Against Women: At the Centre or the Margins?

ISBN-13: 9781107172241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str.

Lorena Sosa

Opis

While gender has become a cornerstone of the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW), a new theoretical concept has been gaining ground and becoming increasingly visible: intersectionality. In response, this book clarifies three main aspects of the incorporation of intersectionality: it identifies the theoretical and practical implications in relation to VAW; it reveals to what extent intersectionality is incorporated in the current human rights framework on VAW; and it provides empirical evidence of the potential benefits and advantages for cases of VAW derived from the application of intersectionality. This book presents a comprehensive view of approaches within three jurisdictions (the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Inter-American System) and it will appeal to human rights scholars, lawyers and other practitioners, particularly those interested in VAW and diversity.

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Intersectionality and violence against women; Part II. Intersectionality in Law: 3. The human rights framework on violence against women; 4. Intersectionality in the United Nations; 5. Intersectionality in the Council of Europe and inter-American system; Part III. Intersectionality in Practice: 6. Empirical case in Europe: Romani women and domestic violence; 7. Empirical case in the Americas: women, diversity and domestic violence; Part IV. Conclusion.