Human Rights, the Family, and Internationalism Since the Nineteenth Century

Julia Moses is Professor in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, in the UK. Recent works include The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States (2018); ed. (with J. Woesthoff) Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries (2021); and ed. Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017).

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Julia Moses.- Part I. Early Contexts and Discussions.- Chapter 2. Family First: Power, Inequality, and the Law from Early Modern to Modern Europe; Miloš Vec.- Chapter 3. The Domestication of Global Governance: Women and Children as International Concerns during the Interwar Period; Regula Ludi.- Chapter 4. French Catholicism, the Family, and the Origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Marco Duranti.- Chapter 5. The Right to the Family and Freedom of Movement: Challenging Migration Restrictions during the Cold War; Jannis Panagiotidis.- Part II. Women’s Rights as Human Rights.- Chapter 6. Domestic Violence under State Socialism in Europe: Emancipating Women, Abetting Perpetrators; Maria Bucur.- Chapter 7. Postcolonial Tensions of Equality at the United Nations: Negotiating the Familial and the International in African Gender Politics of Human Rights; Giusi Russo.- Chapter 8. Muslim Family Laws, Human Rights, and Women’s Rights, 1945-2016; Yüksel Sezgin.- Chapter 9. Negotiating CEDAW: How Unmarried Women were Left Out of the Convention; Mariana Castrellón.- Part III. Reproductive, Sexuality, and Children’s Rights.- Chapter 10. Human Rights, the Family, and Queer Internationalism: Challenging Colonialities, Revising the History of Sexual Rights; Matthew Waites.- Chapter 11. A History of the 'Family' in the United Nations' Disability Policies since the 1970s; Paul van Trigt.- Chapter 12. 'In the Name of the Nuclear Family'? Reproductive Decision-Making and Human Rights Discourse in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Isabel Heinemann.- Chapter 13. Constructing the Family: Human Rights and Adoption; Alice Hearst.