Beyond Virtue and Vice : : Rethinking Human Rights and Criminal Law /

Beyond Virtue and Vice : : Rethinking Human Rights and Criminal Law / / ed. by Mindy Jane Roseman, Alice M. Miller.

Over the past two decades, human rights as legal doctrine and practice has shifted its engagement with criminal law from a near exclusive condemnation of it as a source of harm toward increasingly invoking it as a necessary remedy for abuses. These shifts are most visible in the context of sexuality...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
MitwirkendeR:
Brown, Widney,
Cheng, Sealing,
Corrêa, Sonia,
Erdman, Joanna N.,
Jernow, Alli,
Karam, Maria Lucia,
Kim, Ae- Ryung,
Long, Scott,
Marwah, Vrinda,
Miller, Alice M.,
Misra, Geetanjali,
Moumneh, Rasha,
Phillips, Oliver,
Rizvi, Zain,
Roseman, Mindy Jane,
Saldarriaga, Esteban Restrepo,
Zivkovic, Tara,
HerausgeberIn:
Miller, Alice M.,
Roseman, Mindy Jane,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I. TRANSNATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE
  • 1. Janet Halley in Conversation with Aziza Ahmed: Interview
  • 2. Seismic Shifts: How Prosecution Became the Go- To Tool to Vindicate Rights
  • 3. The Harm Principle Meets Morality Offenses: Human Rights, Criminal Law, and the Regulation of Sex and Gender
  • 4. Reflections of a Human Rights Activist
  • PART II. NATIONAL HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • 5. Virtuous Rights: On Prostitution Exceptionalism in South Korea
  • 6. Brazilian Sex Laws: Continuities, Ruptures, and Paradoxes
  • 7. The Reach of a Skirt in Southern Africa: Claims to Law and Custom in Protecting and Patrolling Relations of Gender and Sexuality
  • 8. Abortion as Treason: Sexuality and Nationalism in France
  • PART III. CON TEMPORARY NATIONAL CONCERNS
  • 9. Wanja Muguongo in Conversation with Alice M. Miller: Interview
  • 10. Criminal Law, Activism, and Sexual and Reproductive Justice: What We Can Learn from the Sex Selection Campaign in India
  • 11. Poisoned Gifts: Old Moralities under New Clothes?
  • 12. The Filth They Bring: Sex Panics and Racial Others in Lebanon
  • 13. Objects in Political Mirrors May Not Be What They Appear
  • 14. Harm Production: An Argument for Decriminalization
  • NOTES
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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