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Transnational LGBT Activism : Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide /

This ethnography explores what transnational LGBT human rights advocates actually do on a day-to-day basis. Drawing on thirteen months of field research at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), the book explores how the first transnational LGBT human rights NGO formed a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thoreson, Ryan Richard, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From the castro ta o the UN : IGLHRC in historical perspective
  • Bodies of law : activists and brokerage in practice
  • Fusing human rights and sexual politics : advocating for LGBT human rights worldwide
  • LGBT human rights advocacy and the partnership principle
  • Knowledge as power : the structural and strategic complexities of information politics
  • Demanding rights, compelling recognition : LGBT advocacy in the global human rights arena
  • Conclusion : for everyone, everywhere : universality, relativism, and the anthropology of human rights.