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Fri, Mar 04 2016 12:15:01

Gender and sexuality: What’s law got to do with it?

A new Edited Collection from IDS calls for ‘other ways of thinking’ about how to advance sexuality and gender justice.

  1. The multiple pathways through which sexual and gender justice can be approached demand that we assess both the scope and the limitations of the legal processes and policy frameworks upon which we are often reliant. The new Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection sets out to do just this.
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  3. From activists working with women in Assam’s tea gardens in India or youth lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender leaders in Vietnam, to lawyers fighting the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda or the criminalisation of cross-dressing in Malaysia, to academics carefully re-reading Islamic Sharia or scrutinizing the link between feminism and criminal Law in Latin America, or to researchers assessing HIV prevention programmes in South Africa, the Collection offers first-hand knowledge and experience of the complexities of gender, sexuality and social justice.
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    Sexual and gender justice may refer to the law but this is far from all it encompasses. The multiple pathways through which sexual and gender justice can be approached demand that we assess both the scope and the limitations of the legal processes and policy frameworks upon which we are often reliant.
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  5. The Collection contains 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over 20 countries in the world. Download the full collection:
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    The contributions to this Edited Collection reveal the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by its title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What's Law Got to Do With It? Many of those involved in this publication are directly involved in and affected by the issues to which the Edited Collection's title speaks.
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  12. This blog post by Collection editors Elizabeth Mills, Arturo Sánchez García and Kay Lalor includes an excerpt from the introduction and invites everyone to join an ongoing conversation, to share reflections, expertise and challenges in the struggle for sexuality and gender justice.
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    On Tuesday, 1 March 2016, we mark a significant moment in a journey that has been walked by over 100 activists, academics and legal practitioners from every continent in the world, over more than two years.
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  14. The Collection was launched at an IDS seminar on 1 March where there of the editors reflected on the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by the Collection’s title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It?
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    This seminar marks the launch of the Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection. Comprising 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over twenty countries in the world, the speakers will reflect on the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by the Collection's title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What's Law Got to Do With It?
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  16. Listen to the seminar here:
  17. IDS Seminar: Gender and Sexuality - What's law got to do with it? by IDS
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  21. How useful is the law for obtaining sexual and gender justice? One of the questions tackled by the panel.
  25. What is the scope for joining working to advance sexual and gender justice?
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