Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women: At the Centre or the Margins?
Cambridge University Press, 10/26/2017
EAN 9781107172241, ISBN10: 1107172241
Hardcover, 304 pages, 24.1 x 16.4 x 2 cm
Language: English
While gender has become a cornerstone of the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW), a new theoretical concept has been gaining ground and becoming increasingly visible: intersectionality. In response, this book clarifies three main aspects of the incorporation of intersectionality: it identifies the theoretical and practical implications in relation to VAW; it reveals to what extent intersectionality is incorporated in the current human rights framework on VAW; and it provides empirical evidence of the potential benefits and advantages for cases of VAW derived from the application of intersectionality. This book presents a comprehensive view of approaches within three jurisdictions (the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Inter-American System) and it will appeal to human rights scholars, lawyers and other practitioners, particularly those interested in VAW and diversity.
Part I. Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Intersectionality and violence against women
Part II. Intersectionality in Law
3. The human rights framework on violence against women
4. Intersectionality in the United Nations
5. Intersectionality in the Council of Europe and inter-American system
Part III. Intersectionality in Practice
6. Empirical case in Europe
Romani women and domestic violence
7. Empirical case in the Americas
women, diversity and domestic violence
Part IV. Conclusion.