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Sexuality and Transsexuality Under the European Convention on Human Rights - A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law (Hardcover)
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Sexuality and Transsexuality Under the European Convention on Human Rights - A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law (Hardcover)
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This book undertakes a critical analysis of international human
rights law through the lens of queer theory. It pursues two main
aims: first, to make use of queer theory to illustrate that the
field of human rights law is underpinned by several assumptions
that determine a conception of the subject that is gendered and
sexual in specific ways. This gives rise to multiple legal and
social consequences, some of which challenge the very idea of
universality of human rights. Second, the book proposes that human
rights law can actually benefit from a better understanding of
queer critiques, since queer insights can help it to overcome
heteronormative beliefs currently held. In order to achieve these
main aims, the book focuses on the case law of the European Court
of Human Rights, the leading legal authority in the field of
international human rights law. The use of queer theory as the
theoretical approach for these tasks serves to deconstruct several
aspects of the Court's jurisprudence dealing with gender,
sexuality, and kinship, to later suggest potential paths to
reconstruct such features in a queer(er) and more universal manner.
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