Human Rights, the Family, and Internationalism Since the Nineteenth Century

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This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas about the family and sexuality intersected with thinking about human rights, for example, through new international law and international institutions; social movements targeting issues related to religion, gender, and sexuality; historical developments such as war and the collapse of empires; and, developments in the social sciences. It features case studies on regions around the globe, as well as on relevant international organisations and individuals who have been influential in this area. In doing so, the contributors to this collection interrogate the relationship between human rights related to the family, and broader debates about rights related to gender and sexuality.

Julia Moses is Professor in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, in the UK. Recent works include The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States (2018); ed. (with J. Woesthoff) Intimate Relationships Across Boundaries (2021); and ed. Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017).

This book examines one of the key issues shaping global considerations of human rights today: the idea of the family as a protected category. Bringing together historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and historical sociologists, the book investigates how ideas about the family and sexuality intersected with thinking about human rights, for example, through new international law and international institutions; social movements targeting issues related to religion, gender, and sexuality; historical developments such as war and the collapse of empires; and, developments in the social sciences. It features case studies on regions around the globe, as well as on relevant international organisations and individuals who have been influential in this area. In doing so, the contributors to this collection interrogate the relationship between human rights related to the family, and broader debates about rights related to gender and sexuality.

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“This excellent volume offers a much-needed historical perspective on the interrelationships between human rights, the family, and sexuality—relationships that have, until now, received far too little scholarly attention. Employing a longer historical and transnational lens, the volume brings together scholars from across history and the social sciences, drawing on the expertise of historians of gender and sexuality. Well-edited and wide-ranging in scope, it breaks new ground and is likely to have enduring relevance.” (Christian Olaf Christiansen, Professor in Intellectual History, Aarhus University, Denmark)

“This important new collection offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship between human rights and the family starting in the nineteenth century. Drawing on the work of historians, sociologists, legal scholars, and others, it shows the diversity of experiences that have accompanied attempts to understand the family as a universally protected category as well as the complications that come from trying to define the boundaries of the category of family in the context of human rights broadly defined.” (Michelle Tusan, Professor of History, University of Nevada Las Vegas)

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