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Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities book cover

1st Edition

Queer Encounters with International Law Lives, Communities, Subjectivities

Edited By Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Claerwen O'Hara Copyright 2025
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law. Traversing a wide range of topics, from trans discrimination and conversion therapy to sadomasochism and abolitionism, this book asks questions about the (im)possibility of freedom and equality for queer communities in the world and the role that different areas of international law have to play in such a pursuit. It... Read more

1.      (Re)Queering International Law

Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Claerwen O’Hara 

PART 1:

Queer Critiques of International and Regional Human Rights Law

2.      The Precarity of Trans Survival: Suicidality and the Right to Life

Matteo Bassetti

3.      Vague Comparisons and Unstable Grounds: The European Court of Human Rights and the Prohibition of Discrimination against Trans Persons

Manon Beury

4.      Abolitionist Human Rights: Queering LGBT Human Rights Advocacy and Law

Karen Engle

PART 2:

(Re)Queering Human Rights Law: New and Alternative Directions

5.      ‘Nothing was changing’: Queering the Role of International Law in the Global Campaign against Conversion Practices

Daryl WJ Yang

6.      Childhood as a Site of Struggle: A Queer Perspective on International Human Rights Law Concerning the Child-Protective Rationale and School Education

Warisa Ongsupankul

7.      Sadomasochism at the European Court of Human Rights: Rights to Sex and Drawing the Line Between Privacy and Public Interest

Alexandra G. Grolimund

PART 3:

Queer battlegrounds: ‘Gender’ in International Law

8.      Human Rights’ Harmful and Harmless Gendered Outlaws

Giovanna Gilleri

9.      ‘Ideological Colonising’: The Influence of Anti-Gender Movements on Domestic and International Human Rights Law

Sandra Duffy

10.   Fear of a Queer Law: Sex/Gender and the Exclusion of Queer Thinking in International Law

Juliana Santos de Carvalho

PART 4:

The Shifting Nature of Queer Encounters with International Law: Journeys Towards Hope

11.   The ‘Art of Living’: LGBTQIA+ Activism and International Law

Odette Mazel

12.   Queer Edens: Visions of Living with Human Rights

Loveday Hodson

13.   Epistemologies Out of the Closet: Thinking Through Queer Theory’s Intellectual Shifts in International Law

Edoardo Stoppioni

Biography

Tamsin Phillipa Paige is Senior Lecturer at Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia.

Claerwen O’Hara is Lecturer at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia.

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