Gender as fluid and flexible : challenges in international and national gender recognition law

Gjesteforelesning med professor Dianne Otto

The Struggle to Challenge Legal Gender as Duality: Stories from international and Australian law

In international and domestic law alike, sex/gender has long been treated as male/female duality, yet today Facebook offers 58 gender options, including male and female, from which up to 10 can be selected to be recorded in member’s profiles. This paper will present a brief genealogy of international human rights debates (and silences) about this presumed duality, and its harmful regulatory effects, before critically examining recent halting developments in gender recognition in international and Australian law. It will be argued that these developments tend to reinforce the normative standard as heterosexual duality, even as they purport to recognize sex/gender as fluid and multiple. The issue of how this tendency might be resisted will be raised for discussion.

Om Dianne Otto

Professor Dianne Otto holds the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law at Melbourne Law School. She is Programme Director of Feminist and Queer Approaches to International Law in the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH), and Co-Director of its International Human Rights Law Program.Her research interests include addressing gender, sexuality and race inequalities in the context of international human rights law, the UN Security Council’s peacekeeping work, the technologies of global ‘crisis governance’, threats to economic, social and cultural rights, and the transformative potential of people’s tribunals and other NGO initiatives. Dianne's recent publications include ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’ in Florian Hoffman and Anne Orford (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory (2016); 'Queering Gender [Identity] in International Law' in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2015); Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security (co-edited with Gina Heathcote,2014); and three edited volumes, Gender Issues and Human Rights (Edward Elgar2013); Recently, she had the honour of being included in Ai Weiwei's artwork honouring Australian human rights advocates, which he created for the Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei exhibition at the National Gallery Victoria 2015-2016.
 

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Publisert 29. aug. 2016 13:22 - Sist endret 3. apr. 2017 13:15