Gender issues and human rights / edited by Dianne Otto, Professor of Law, Director, Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) and Co-Director of IILAH, International Human Rights Law Programme, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-viii)

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Dianne Otto
PART I
PART II
GI'NEALOGIES: HISTORIES OF STRUGGLE
l. Arvonne S. Fraser (1999). 'Becontin-e Human: The Origins and
Development of Women's Hunran Rights'. Hurnan Rights
Quarterh,zl A). November, 853-906 3
2, Felice D. Gaer ( 1998). 'And Never the Twain Shall Meet'J The
Struggle to Establish Wonren's Rights as International Human
Rights', in Carol Elizabeth Lockwood. Daniel Barstorv Ma-eraw,
Margaret Faith Spring and S.l. Strong (eds). The Intentcttiortctl
Htrman Rights oJ'Wonren: Irtstuntents of'Cltange, Washington. DC:
American Bar Association. 1-89 57
3. Karen Engle (1992).'lnternational Human Ri-ehts and Feminism:
When Discourses Meet' . Mic'ltigcut Journul oJ Interncrtionul Lav',
13 (3), Sprin-u.517-610 146
4. Dianne Otto (2006). 'Lost in Translation: Re-Scriptin_e the Sexed
Subjects of International Human Ri-shts Law'. in Anne Orford (ed.).
lnremotional Low and lts Others. Chapter 12. Cambrid-ee. UK:
Cambridge University Press. 318-56 240
WOMEN'S NEEDS OR WOMEN'S RIGHTS? EARLY
NORMATIVE AND TNSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
5, Johannes Morsink ( I 991 ). 'Women's Rights in the Universal
Declaration'. Humun Rigltts Quorterlt. 13 (2). May, 229-56 281
6. Natalie Kaufman Hevener (1978). 'lnternational Law and the Status
of Women: An Analysis of International Le-eal Instruments Related
to the Treatment of Women'. Han'urcl Wonten's Lcnt'Jountal.l.
1 , Laura Reanda ( 198 I). 'Human Rights and Women's Rights: The
Unrted Nations Approach' . Humart Rights Quarterh.3 (2). May,
8, Helen Bequaert Holmes (1983). 'A Feminist Analysis of the
Universal Declaration of Human Ri-shts'. in Carol C. Gould (ed.1.
Betond Dontirtcttion: New Persper-tit'es on Wonten urtd Pltilosopltt'.
Chapter 14. Totowa. NJ: Rowman and Allanheld. 250-64 356
9. Noreen Burrows ( 1985). 'The 1979 Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination A-eainst Women' .Netherlartds
Intemational LaN'Ret'iev'. XXXII (3).419-60 311
Gertder /.r'.srrc.r' uttd Httnrurt Riclts I
10. Andrew C. Byrnes ( I 989t. 'The "Other" Human Rights Treaty
Body: The Work of the Comrnittee on the Elimination of
Disclinrination Against Women' . Yole Journal of Inrernational Lew',
l4 ( l). Winter, l-67
I I . Abdullahi An-Na'ini ( 1987-88), 'The Rights of Women and
f nternational Law in the Muslim Context' , Whittier Lav; Reyiew,9, 491-516
PUBLIC/PRIVATE, LOCAL/GLOBAL: STRUCTURAL
CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
12. Celina Romany ( 1993), 'Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of
the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law',
Hun,unl Hutnttn Rights Journal, 6. 87 -l25
13. Hilary Charlesworth ( 1994),'What are "Women's International
Human Rights"'i'. in Rebecca J. Cook (ed.), HLtmctn Rights of
Women: National uncl Internutionctl Perspectit,es, Chapter 3.
Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 58-84
14. J. Oloka-Onyango and Sylvia Tamale (1995), "'The Personal is
Political." or Why Women's Rights are Indeed Human Ri_uhts: An
African Perspective on International Feminism' . Humqn Rights
Quurte rlr, 17 (4). November, 69 | -l3l
15. V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi (1998). 'Are Women Human?
It's Not an Acadernic Question', in Tony Evans (ed.), Humon Rights
Fifit'Years On: A Reappraisal, Chapter 6, Manchester. UK and New
York, NY: Manchester University Press. 132-60
16. Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin (1993), 'The Gender of
Jus Cogens', Humun Rights Quarterlt, 15 (1), February,63-76
11 . Karen Engle ( 1993 ). 'After the Collapse of the PubliciPrivate
Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights', in Dorinda G.
Dallmeyer (ed.), Reconc:eit'ing Realin': Women and Inrernational
Law, Chapter 7, Washin_uton, DC: American Society of
International Law, I 43-55
18. L. Arnede Obiora (1996-91). 'Feminism, Globalization, and
Culture: After Beijing' . Indiun Journal ofGlobal Legal Studies,
4 (2), Sprin-e, 355-1106
19. Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wri-eht (1992-93), 'The Hunger
Trap: Women. Food, and Self-Determination' , Mit-higan Jr>urnal of
I nte mutiortctl Luyt'. 14. Winter, 262-321
20. Anne Orford (1998). 'Contesting Globalization: A Feminist
Perspective on the Future of Hunran Rights' .Transnational Law
und Contemporon' Prutblems,8, Fall, l7l-98
PART III
An introduction to all three volumes by the editor appears in Volume I
PART I
WHICH WOMEN? WHOSE RIGHTS? BUILDING
MULTICULTURAL AND INTBRSECTIONAL FEMINISMS
1. Isabelle R. Gunning (1991-92),'Arrogant Perception, WorldTravelling
and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital
Surgeries' , Columbia Human Rights Law Review,23, 189-248 3
Ratna Kapur (2002),'The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric:
Resurrecting the "Native" Subject in International/Post-Colonial
Feminist Legal Politics' , Harvard Human Rights Journal,15,
Spring, 1-37 63
Radhika Coomaraswamy (2002-03),'ldentity Within: Cultural
Relativism, Minority Rights and the Empowerment of Women',
GeorgeWashington International Inw Review,34,483-513 100
Penelope Andrews (199G91), 'Violence Against Aboriginal
Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress Within the
International Human Rights Framework' , Albany Law Review,60,
Adila Abusharaf (2006), 'Women in Islamic Communities: The
Quest for Gender Justice Research' , Human Rights Quarterlv,
28 (3), August, ll4-28 156
Tracy E. Higgins (1996), 'Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and
Human Rights' , Harvard Women's Law Journal,19, Spring,
Shefali Desai (1999), 'Hearing Afghan Women's Voices: Feminist
Theory's Re-Conceptualizationf Women's Human Rights',
Arizona Journal of International and Comparative lnw,16 (3),
Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of
Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination
Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics' , Universit,v of
Chicago Legal Forum,1989, 13941 248
Johanna E. Bond (2003), 'lnternational Intersectionality: A
Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Women's International
Human Rights Violations', Emom- Law Journal,52,1I-186 217
VI Gender Issues and Human Rishts Il
PART II WOMEN ARE HUMAN TOO: RECONCEPTUALIZING
MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS
10. Rhonda Copelon (1993-94), 'Recognizing the Egregious in the
Everyday: Dornestic Violence as Torture' , Columbia Human Rights
Law Review.25.29l-361 395
I 1. Alice Edwards (2006). 'The "Feminizing" of Torture under
International Human Rights Law', Leiden Journal of International
Law,19,349-91 472
Giulia Paglione (2006), 'Domestic Violence and Housing Rights: A
Reinterpretation of the Right to Housing' , Hunten Rights Quarterly,
28 (1), February, 12041 515
Leilani Farha (2002),'Is There a Woman in the House?
Re/conceiving the Human Right to Housing' , Canadian Journal of
Women and the Law,14, 118-41 543
Rebecca J. Cook (1994-95), 'Human Rights and Reproductive SelfDetermination',
Anterican Universitl, Inw Review, 44,975-1016 567
Fleur van Leeuwen (2007), 'A Woman's Right To Decide? The
United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights of
Women, and Matters of Human Reproduction', Netherlands
Quarterly of Human Rights,2s (1), 91-116 609
Anne Gallagher (1997),'Ending the Marginalization: Strategies for
Incorporating Women into the United Nations Human Rights
System', Human Rights Quarterly,19 (2), May, 283-333
l7. Hilary Charlesworth (2005), 'Not Waving but Drowning: Gender
Mainstreaming and Human Rights in the United Nations', Harvard
Human Rights Journal,l8, 1-18 680
PART III WOMEN,S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: RBCOGNIZING
NEW HUMAN RIGHTS
18. Charlotte Bunch (1990), 'Women's Rights as Human Rights:
Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights', Human Rights Quarterly,
12 (4), November, 486-98
Alice M. Miller (2004),'Sexuality, Violence Against Women, and
Human Rights: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection',
Health and Human Rights,T (2),1647 7I4
Lisa A. Crooms (1998-99), 'Using a Multi-Tiered Analysis to
Reconceptualize Gender-Based Violence against Women as a
Matter of International Human Rights' , New England Inw Review,
33 (4), 881-906 746
Sarah Y. Lai and Regan E. Ralph (1995), 'Female Sexual Autonomy
and Human Rights', Harvard Human Rights Journal,8,20l-21 772
Yasmin Tambiah (1998), 'Realizing Women's Sexual Rights:
Challenges in South Asia', Nordic Journal of International Law,67,
97-r0s 799
Gender Issues and Human Rights II vu
23. Elizabeth Sepper (2008), 'Confronting the "Sacred and
Unchangeable": The Obligation to Modify Cultural Patterns Under
the Women's Discrimination Treaty' , University of Pennsylvania
Journal of International Law,30 (2), Winter, 585-639
Simone Cusack and Rebecca J. Cook Q0A9),'Stereotyping Women
in the Health Sector: Lessons from CEDAW', Washington and Lee
Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, L6,41-78
,1rt itttrocluc'tion to qll tltree rolumes by tlte etlitor uppeors in Volume I
PART I
PART II
IX
PURSUING IMPI,EMENTATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF
CRITICAL ACTIVISM
l. Afia At-sharipour ( 1999). 'Empowering Ourselves: The Role of
Women's NGOs in the Enforcenrent of the Women's Convention'.
Columbia Law Reviex'. 99 ( 1). January, 129-72 3
2. Diane Elson and Jasmine Gideon (2004), 'Organising for Women's
Economic and Social Ri_ehts: How' useful is the lnterniitional
Covenant on Economic. Social and Cultural Ri-qhts?' . Jounrul ct.f
Interdisciplinurt' Gerrcler Sturlies. S ( I &2 ). June, I 33-52 41
3. Renu Mandhane (2003-04). 'The Use of Human Rights Discourse
to Secure Women's Interests: CriticalAnalysis of the Implications'.
Michigan Joumal o.f Gender cu'tcl ktx',10,215-325 6l
4. Cheah Wui Ling (2009). 'Walkin_e the Lon-c Road in Solidarity and
Hope: A Case Study of the "Comfort Women" Nllovement's
Deployment of Human Rights Discourse' , Hun'ard Humctn Rights
Jrtumul.22. 63-10l I 18
5. Doris E. Buss (200-l). 'Finding the Homosexual in Women's Ri-ehts:
The Christian Ri_eht in International Politics'. Irttentutional Feminist
Jountul oJ Politics. 6 (2). June. 257-84 163
6. James Gathii (2006). 'Exportin_t Culture Wars' . Universin' of
California. Dat'is Jountal of Internatiornl Lutt' und Polict'.13 ( l),
6'7-93
7. Sari Kouvo (2008). 'A "Quick and Dirty" Approach to Women's
Emancipation and Human Rights?' . Feminist Legul Studies.16.
37 46
8. Sally En-sle Merry (2003). 'Ri-ehts Talk and the Experience of Law:
Implementing Women's Human Rights to Protection from
Violence' , Humun Rigltts Quurterlt.25 (2). May. 343-81
LINKING WOMEN'S NEEDS AND RIGHTS: IVON,IEN. HUMAN
RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
9 . Dianne Otto ( 1996 ). 'Holdin-e Up Half the Sky. but for Whose
Benefit?: A Critical Analysis of the Fourth World Conference on
Women' .Australicttt Fentini.st La*' Jountal. 6. March. 7-28
Andrea Cornu'all and Marine Molyneux (2006), 'The Politics of
Rights - Dilentrr-ras for Ferlinist Praxis: An Introduction' .Third
Worlcl Quurterlt,2T (l), 1ll5-91
Kerry Rittich (2003),'Engendering Development/Marketing
Ecluality' . Albunv Luw Reviev'. 67 .575-93
12. Celestine I. Nyamu (2000), 'How Should Human Rights and
Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender
Hierarchy in Developing Countries?' . Han,ctrd Internationttl Lav,
Jountttl. 4l (2). Spring, 38 l-4 l 8
13. Rachel Rebouchd (2006;, 'Labor. Land. and Women's Rights in
Africa: Challen-ees for the New Protocol on the Rights of Women',
Hun,ctrd Humttn Rishts Jcturnal. 19.235-56
Ambreena Maii (2003), 'Remort-ea-eing Wonten's Lives: The
World Bank's Land Agenda in Africa' , Feminist Legctl Studies.
ll (2). June. 139-62
Juanita Elias (2007),'Women Workers and Labt-rur Standards: The
Problern of "Human Rights"' , Reviev' of Interncttionul Studies,
33 ( I ). January. 45-57
Margaret L. Satterthwaite (2005). 'Crossing Borders, Claiming
Rights: Using Human Ri-ehts Law to Empower Women Migrant
Workers',Yule Huntan Rights uncl Development Law Journal,S,
l-66
Janie Chuang (1998). 'Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in
Wonren: Definitions, Paradigms. and Contexts' , Hqn,urd Human
Righrs Joumal. 1 1. 65-1 07
THE QUESTION OF NIEN AND OTHER GENDER IDENTITIES:
BEYOND THE GENDER DUALITY
18. Sally Baden and Anne Marie Goetz ( 1998). 'Who Needs [Sex]
When You Can Have lGender]? Conflicting Discourses on Cender
at Beijing', in Cecile Jackson and Ruth Pearson (eds), Feminist
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19. Kirsten Anderson (2008). 'Violence A-sainst Women: State
Responsibilities in International Human Rights Law to Address
Harnrful "Masculinities"'
. Netherlctnds Quurterh of Humctn Rights,
26 Q\. t11-91
20. Kumaralin,eam Arnit'thalingarn (2005).'Women's Rights.
International Norms. and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives',
Htttrtctrt Rigltts Quurterlt, 2T Q)^ May, 683-708
21. Sandesh Sivakumaran (2005), 'Male/Male Rape and the "Taint" of
Homosexuality' . Huntcut Riglts Quurterlt. 2T (4), Noventber,
PART III Gettcler /ssrre.s urtd Huntutt Ri.qhts III l't I
22. Brenda Cossman. Dan Danielsen, Janet Halley and Tracy Higgins
(2003), 'Gender, Sexuality, and Power: Is Feminist Theory
Enough?' , Columbia Journal of Gender ontl Luw.12 (3),601-37 639
23. Aeyal M. Gross (2008). 'Sex. Love. and Marriage: Questioning
Gender and Sexuality Rights in International Law' , Leiden Journal
of Internutional Luv',21( I ). March,235-53 616
24. Daruen Rosenblum (201 1). 'Unisex CEDAW or What's Wrong with
Women's Rights' , Columbiu Jountctl of Gender and the Lttw'.
20 (2).98-194 69s
25. Brenda Cossman (2002), 'Gender Performance. Sexual Subjects
and International Law' . Canadiun Jountctl of Ltnt and
Jurisprudence, 15 (2),281-96 792
26. Moya Lloyd (2001).'(Women's) Human Rights: Paradoxes and
Possibilities', Reliew of Interntttionul Stuclies,33 ( I ). January,

"The 1990s witnessed a surge of feminist human rights scholarship and activism in international law which has shaped jurisprudential and institutional developments, yet gender issues and human rights still remains a topical and evolving field of study. In this collection, Professor Otto brings together seminal works which are united in their aim of challenging the existing gendered hierarchies of power, inequality and those natural foundations that have justified oppressive gender stereotypes. Included works cover, among others, the history and early developments of women's rights, structural critiques of international human rights law, recognizing new human rights, linking women's needs and human rights and thinking beyond the duality of gender"--Back cover.