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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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : women's status, men's states
- 1. On torture
- 2. Human rights and global violence against women
- 3. Theory is not a luxury
- 4. Are women human?
- 5. Postmodernism and human rights
- 6. The promise of CEDAW's optional protocol
- 7. Making sex equality real - - 8. Nationbuilding in Canada
- 9. Misogyny's cold heart
- 10. On sex and violence : introducing the antipornography civil rights law in Sweden
- 11. Equality remade : violence against women
- 12. Pornography's empire
- 13. Sex equality under the constitution of India : problems, prospects, and "personal laws"
- 14. Crimes of war, crimes of peace
- 15. Turning rape into pornography : postmodern genocide
- 16. Rape as nationbuilding
- 17. From Auschwitz to Omarska, Nuremberg to The Hague
- 18. Rape, genocide, and women's human rights
- 19. Gender-based crimes in humanitarian law
- 20. War crimes remedies at the national level
- 21. Collective harms under the alien tort statute : a cautionary note on class actions
- 22. Genocide's sexuality
- 23. Defining rape internationally : a comment on Akayesu
- 24. Pornography as trafficking
- 25. Women's September 11th : rethinking the international law of conflict.