Are women human? : and other international dialogues /

Exposing the consequences and significance of the systematic maltreatment of women, and its systemic condonation, this book takes us into the heart of the international law of conflict to ask - and reveal - why the international community can rally against terrorists' violence, but not against...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacKinnon, Catharine A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Women's rights.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women > Violence against.
Women's Rights
Femmes > Droits.
Femmes > Droit.
Femmes > Violence envers.
71.33 women (sociology)
86.81 human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Women.
Human rights.
Sexual violence.
Pornography.
Frau > Recht.
Frau > Misshandlung.
Misshandlung > Frau.
Frau.
Menschenrecht.
Droits de la femme.
Femme.
Statut juridique.
Femme maltraitée.
femme > statut juridique > 20e s. (fin) > 21e s. (début) > études diverses.
droit à une existence décente > droits de l'homme > femme > 20e s. (fin) > 21e s. (début) > études diverses.
droits de l'homme > femme > violence > 20e s. (fin) > 21e s. (début) > études diverses.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : women's status, men's states
  • Part I. Theory and Reality:
  • 1. On torture (1990)
  • 2. Human rights and global violence against women (1992)
  • 3. Theory is not a luxury (1993)
  • 4. Are women human? (1999)
  • 5. Postmodernism and human rights (2000)
  • 6: The promise of CEDAW's optional protocol (2004)
  • Part II. Struggles within States:
  • 7. Making sex equality real (1985)
  • 8. Nationbuilding in Canada (1988)
  • 9. Misogyny's cold heart (1987)
  • 10. On sex and violence : introducing the antipornography civil rights law in Sweden (1990)
  • 11. Equality remade : violence against women (1991)
  • 12: Pornography's empire (1995)
  • 13: Sex equality under the constitution of India : problems, prospects, and "personal laws" (2006)
  • Part III. Through the Bosnian Lens:
  • 14. Crimes of war, crimes of peace (1993)
  • 15. Turning rape into pornography : postmodern genocide (1993)
  • 16. Rape as nationbuilding (1994)
  • 17. From Auschwitz to Omarska, Nuremberg to The Hague (1994)
  • 18. Rape, genocide, and women's human rights (1994)
  • 19. Gender-based crimes in humanitarian law (1997)
  • 20: War crimes remedies at the national level (1997)
  • 21. Collective harms under the alien tort statute : a cautionary note on class actions (1999)
  • 22. Genocide's sexuality (2005)
  • Part IV. On the Cutting Edge:
  • 23. Defining rape internationally : a comment on Akayesu (2006)
  • 24. Pornography as trafficking (2005)
  • 25. Women's September 11th : rethinking the international law of conflict (2006).

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