Violence against women's health in international law
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Violence against women's health in international law
（Melland Schill studies in international law）
Manchester University Press, 2020
- : hardback
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-245) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Violence against women is characterised by its universality, the multiplicity of its forms, and the intersectionality of diverse kinds of discrimination against women. Great emphasis in legal analysis has been placed on sex-based discrimination; however, in investigations of violence, one aspect has been overlooked: violence may severely affect women's health and access to reproductive health, and State health policies might be a cause of violence against women.
Exploring the relationship between violence against women and women's rights to health and reproductive health, Sara De Vido theorises the new concept of violence against women's health in international law using the Hippocratic paradigm, enriching human rights-based approaches to women's autonomy and reflecting on the pervasiveness of patterns of discrimination.
At the core of the book are two dimensions of violence: horizontal 'inter-personal', and vertical 'state policies'. Investigating these dimensions through decisions made by domestic, regional and international judicial or quasi-judicial bodies, De Vido reconceptualises States' obligations and eventually asks whether international law itself is the ultimate cause of violence against women's health. -- .
Table of Contents
Introduction: The narrative
1 The Anamnesis: 'Case history' on violence against women and women's rights to health and to reproductive health
2 The Diagnosis: A conceptualisation of VAWH
3 The Treatment: A re-conceptualisation of States' obligations in countering VAWH
4 The Prognosis: Final conclusions
Bibliography
Table of treaties
Table of cases -- .
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