Sex Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2002

Author: Bamforth Nicholas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192805614
Published In: March 2005
Format: Paperback , 320 pages
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The 2002 volume of the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures series
Seeks to explore the role and limitations of ideas of human rights in the area of gender and sexuality
The authors are internationally distinguished writers from the areas of literature, social theory, law, and journalism

Discrimination due to gender and sexual orientation tends nowadays to be prohibited under international human rights instruments, as well as under the national laws of many countries that express their commitment to defending human rights. Nonetheless, as the work of Amnesty International has shown, violence against women (whatever their sexual orientation), gay men, trans-gendered and transsexual persons remains an appallingly constant phenomenon, both in countries that have an official commitment to fighting these forms of discrimination and in those that do not. Violence is inflicted by private actors as well as - in many countries - by state officials, and is often justified by reference to local customs and moral values.

Nicholas Bamforth: Introduction

1: Judith Butler (Introduced by Malcolm Bowie): On Being Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy

2: Susan Moller Okin (Introduced by David Miller): Women's Human Rights in the Late Twentieth Century: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

3: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan: Women's Human Rights in the Third World

4: Alan Sinfield (Introduced by Christopher Robinson): Rape and Rights: Measure for Measure and the Limits of Cultural Imperialism

5: Rose George (Introduced by Michèle Le Doeuff): Share a Spliff, Share a Girl - Same Difference. The Unpleasant Reality of Gang Rape

6: Robert Wintemute (Introduced by Christopher McCrudden): From 'Sex Rights' to 'Love Rights': Partnership Rights as Human Rights

7: Marina Warner (Introduced by Roy Foster): Who's Sorry Now?: Personal Stories, Public Apologi

Edited by Nicholas Bamforth, Fellow in Law, The Queen's College, Oxford

Contributors:
Nicholas Bamforth
Judith Butler
Rose George
Michèle Le Doeuff
Susan Moller Okin
Alan Sinfield
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Marina Warner
Robert Wintemute