Gender and Human Rights

Karen Knop is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Studies, New York University School of Law. As rapporteur for the International Law Association's Committee on Feminism and International Law, she was responsible for the ILA's report on gender and nationality (2000).

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Feminist Legal Therory and the Rights of Women ; 3. Take a Break from Feminism? ; 4. Citizenship in Europe and the Construction of Gender by Law in the European Charter of Fundamental Rights ; 5. Constitutional Domestication of International Gender Norms: Categorizations, Illustrations, and reflections from the Nearside of the Bridge ; 6. Individual(s') Liability for Collective Sexual Violence ; 7. 'The Appeals of the Orient': Colonized Desire and the War of the Riff ; 8. Toward an Understanding of Transnationalism and Gender

[A] brilliant collection of essays...the essays in Knop's volume are essential reading for anyone interested in women's human rights - which, as the volume demonstrates, must include anyone interested in international human rights law.