Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women
At the Centre or the Margins?

This book theoretically explores intersectionality within human rights norms on violence against women and the derived duties for States.

Lorena Sosa (Author)

9781107172241, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 October 2017

304 pages, 16 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg

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.

Subject Areas: International human rights law [LBBR], Public international law [LBB], Human rights [JPVH]