Intersectional Human Rights at CEDAW: Promises Transmissions and Impacts

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dc.contributor.advisorBuchanan, Ruth M.
dc.creatorAllen Dale, Amanda Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:56:15Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:56:15Z
dc.date.copyright2018-08-23
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:56:15Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractStarting from the premise that international human rights law is not a neutral fact, this dissertation is a critical exploration of the promises, transmissions and impacts of intersectionality as an approach to gender protections in international human rights law. I begin with a definition of intersectionality at the individual claimant and jurisprudential levels, as an approach to anti-discrimination and equality law that attempts to move beyond static conceptions and fixed identities of discriminated subjects, and, based on Kimberl Crenshaws powerful metaphor of a traffic intersection, delineates the flow of discrimination as multi-directional, and injury as seldom attributable to a single source. But in its life beyond these early works, intersectionalitys epistemological and ontological claims have since come to express the possibility of a nearly infinite entanglement of human experience as impacted by systems of governance and regulation. In exploring this, I articulate an additional conditioning intersection. That is, in addition to the intersection of multiple harms, forms of discrimination or identitieswhich are, variously, the meanings ascribed to intersectionality as an approach to international human rights lawthe intersection this dissertation fundamentally straddles is that between social critique and instrumental engagement. This dissertation is guided by an engaged ambivalence about the core project of harnessing feminist social critique, such as that invited by intersectionalitys migratory path, to the perilous project of feminist governance. I mobilize a critical international law framework, to review relevant literature, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) practices and decisions, related United Nations memos, documents and Special Rapporteur materials, along with original interviews with CEDAW Committee members to assess the legal status, governance implications and feminist goals realized and missed in the intersectional turn in international human rights. It concludes that intersectionality both advances critical legal practice, and remains entangled in the imperial vestiges of international laws genealogy.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35582
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectLaw
dc.subject.keywordsIntersectionality
dc.subject.keywordsCEDAW
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justice
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist theory
dc.subject.keywordsInternational human rights law
dc.subject.keywordsCritical international law
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist legal theory
dc.subject.keywordsUnited Nations Treaty system
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist approaches to law
dc.subject.keywordsAnn Orford methodology
dc.subject.keywordsHuman rights
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and society
dc.subject.keywordsConcluding observations
dc.subject.keywordsSpecial rapporteurs
dc.subject.keywordsMissing and murdered indigenous women Canada
dc.subject.keywordsPost-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsCrenshaw
dc.titleIntersectional Human Rights at CEDAW: Promises Transmissions and Impacts
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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