Gender and Human Rights

Download or read book Gender and Human Rights written by Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights law. The book illustrates which dynamics within the field of human rights hinder the expansion of the concept of gender beyond binaries and which strategies and mechanisms allow and facilitate such an expansion.