The growth of the women's international human rights movement worldwide and its emergence as a field of study has led to a valuable but increasingly self-contained literature, often cut off from developments in feminist legal theory, on the one hand, and conceptions of the different legal contexts in which international human rights operate, on the other. This collection of essays brings together feminist scholars in a number of areas including international law, rights, citizenship, queer theory, constitutional law and migration studies to reflect on gender and human rights. The result is a series of fresh and sophisticated essays that situates women's international human rights in broader debates about feminism, rights and international society, providing a variety of methods and vantage points. The essays both offer perspectives on gender and human rights drawn from women's experiences with national laws and contribute to feminist analyses of law in such international and transnational arenas as war, colonialism and globalization.

About the Author
Karen Knop is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies, New York University School of Law. As rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Feminism and International Law, she was responsible for the ILA's report on gender and nationality (2000).

Reviews
[A] brilliant collection of essays...the essays in Knop's volume are essential reading for anyone interested in women's human rights - which, as the volume demonstrates, must include anyone interested in international human rights law. * Barbara Stark, American Journal of International Law *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199260911
Author Karen Knop
Format Paperback
Page Count 266
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 403g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 14mm