1st Edition

Law, Politics and the Gender Binary

Edited By Petr Agha Copyright 2019
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered to be foundational to society and the organization of its institutions. In the last decades, the massive literature on gender has challenged this discursive construction. Gender has been disassembled and reassembled, variously considered as social practice, performance, ideology. Yet the binary... Read more

Introduction  2. The Politicization of Sexuality (Ingrid Salvatore)  3. Territorializing Gender (Valeria Venditti)  4. Can Human Rights Exist Without Gender? LGBTI Issues and the Council of Europe (Francesca Romana Ammaturo)  5. Linguistic Traps: Identity and Differences through Institutions (Carlotta Cossutta)  6. Subjectivity, Gender and Agency (Petr Agha)  7. How the Inheritance System Thinks? Queering Kinship, Gender and Care in the Legal Sphere (Antu Sorainen)

Biography

Petr Agha is the director of the Centre for Law and Public Affairs, a researcher at the Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences, and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.