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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433235703321

Autore

De Vido Sara

Titolo

Violence against women's health in international law / Sara De Vido

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester University Press, 2020

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-2498-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Melland Schill Studies

Disciplina

344.041

Soggetti

Women's health services - Law and legislation

Women - Legal status, laws, etc

Law

Women's Health - legislation & jurisprudence

Law / Alternative Dispute Resolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.