1. Introduction -- 2. Gender and its complexities -- 3. Human rights and gender: the first stage -- 4. Feminist approaches, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory: their engagement with gender and human rights -- 5. Human rights and gender: the second...
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1. Introduction -- 2. Gender and its complexities -- 3. Human rights and gender: the first stage -- 4. Feminist approaches, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory: their engagement with gender and human rights -- 5. Human rights and gender: the second stage -- 6. Successes and challenges: right to be free from violence -- 7. Successes and challenges: culture and human rights -- 8. Successes and challenges: family and human rights -- 9. General conclusions. This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. The book illustrates which dynamics within the field of human rights hinder the expansion of the concept of gender beyond binaries and which strategies and mechanisms allow and facilitate such an expansion
