Violence against women and social and economic rights: deepening the connections

Goldblatt, B

Violence against women and social and economic rights: deepening the connections

Goldblatt, B

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Publisher:: Edward Elgar
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, 2019, pp. 359 - 378
Issue Date:: 2019-05-01

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dc.contributor.author	Goldblatt, B https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-3176	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Rimmer, SH	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Ogg, K	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-05-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, 2019, pp. 359 - 378	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781785363917	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132919
dc.description.abstract	Violence against women cuts across class, touching both rich and poor. It is clear, however, that poverty and unequal access to resources contribute to the conditions that make women vulnerable to violence. The chapter suggests the need for a closer understanding of how violence acts as a barrier to women’s exercise of and access to their social and economic rights and how these rights might support efforts to prevent and address violence against women. The chapter considers some of the concerns raised by critical feminist scholars in relation to feminist engagements with international law, particularly where they deal with violence against women within international human rights law. It argues that a focus on social and economic rights might overcome some of these concerns in using human rights to address violence against women. It explores ways in which the conceptual connections between violence against women and social and economic rights might be deepened in international human rights law. Social and economic rights have potential value in contributing to the prevention of violence, rather than just in responding to it. Together with substantive approaches to equality, social and economic rights might be marshalled to achieve transformative changes to society, by altering some of the structural underpinnings of poverty and inequality that contribute to violence against women	en_US
dc.publisher	Edward Elgar	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4337/9781785363924.00030	en_US
dc.title	Violence against women and social and economic rights: deepening the connections	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
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Abstract:

Violence against women cuts across class, touching both rich and poor. It is clear, however, that poverty and unequal access to resources contribute to the conditions that make women vulnerable to violence. The chapter suggests the need for a closer understanding of how violence acts as a barrier to women’s exercise of and access to their social and economic rights and how these rights might support efforts to prevent and address violence against women. The chapter considers some of the concerns raised by critical feminist scholars in relation to feminist engagements with international law, particularly where they deal with violence against women within international human rights law. It argues that a focus on social and economic rights might overcome some of these concerns in using human rights to address violence against women. It explores ways in which the conceptual connections between violence against women and social and economic rights might be deepened in international human rights law. Social and economic rights have potential value in contributing to the prevention of violence, rather than just in responding to it. Together with substantive approaches to equality, social and economic rights might be marshalled to achieve transformative changes to society, by altering some of the structural underpinnings of poverty and inequality that contribute to violence against women

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