Sex, Gender and International Human Rights Law

This book investigates the relationship between sex and gender under international human rights law, and how this influences the formation of individual subjects.

Autorentext

Giovanna Gilleri is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Departmental Centre for Law and Pluralism, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

Inhalt

Introduction: On the Edges of the Gendered Human Rights Discourse Part I Uncovering Binary-Normativity 1. The Psy-Femi-Queer Approach 2. Sexes, Genders, Sexualities 3. Exclusionary Binaries 4. Rethinking Victimisation Part II Gendered Interplays: Variations on a Theme 5. Unspeakable Gender: Medical Sexing Interventions 6. A Pleasurable Danger: Sadomasochism. Conclusion: Subject Formations in Interpretive Oceans