How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights law When do domestic courts protect international human rights? By the end of the twentieth century, the world had witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of international human rights law and a growing number of democratic states whose domestic institutions promised to protect those rights. A single institution often became the center of these efforts: the court. Advocates in newly democratized states could look to high courts to demand that their governments comply with international law and bring policy into line with liberal rhetoric. This process, however, put these young courts in a difficult position. With no deep well of historical legitimacy to draw on in new political environments, courts had to weigh high-minded legal principles against the limited resources or political preferences of elected governments. In such situations, how did these courts respond, and what strategies allowed some to successfully build their legitimacy over time while others faltered, succumbing to political pressure or suffering political backlash? In Between Possibility and Peril, Chris Kendall explores this dynamic in three states--Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa--in the twenty years following each country's democratic transition. The case studies reveal a common pattern: what matters most is not international law itself, but a court's ability to control its procedural environment. Control over these "rules of the game" allows a court to selectively engage international human rights issues that can enhance its legitimacy and build public support while avoiding those issues likely to put it in direct conflict with hostile political actors. The result is paradoxical--the most successful courts in the long term are those who in the short term often choose to disappoint rights advocates.

Between Possibility and Peril: Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

Kendall, Chris

Rules & Procedures

University of Pennsylvania Press

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101 Frickin' Rawsome Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vegetarian & Vegan

Independently published

Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws

A candid re-examination of what it means to be a gay man Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men’s Lives explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. This controversial book features thoughtful and provocative essays from authors, educators, and activists who challenge the stigmatization and issues of power they face as gay men who don’t fit the masculine mold formed by the gay porn industry and the media. Their poignant words reveal the sting of finding discrimination and alienation where least expected as the rise of sexualized hyper-masculinity, racism, and femiphobia among gay men has created a need to re-examine appropriate gay male identity and sexuality. Editors Christopher Kendall and Wayne Martino, who have written about and researched the negative side of gay male pornography, the links between sexism and homophobia, gay male suicide, and the impact of masculinity and sexuality on gay men, divide the book’s powerful essays into two sections: The Dynamics of Sex/Gender Oppression and When Gender Harms and Oppression Becomes the Norm. The first section challenges the assumptions that form the basis of gay male identity. Relying on the work of radical feminists and cultural theorists, the authors explore the meaning of gender in a society that expects men to act according to a masculine idealand punishes them when they don’t. The book’s second section analyzes the reality of gender oppression caused by inequality and sexualized gender hierarchies. Contributors discuss what can happen when gay men take seriously the sexual role models that are offered and what happens if they dare to reject them. Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws examines: 
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<li> effeminacy in gay men’s lives 
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<li> the idealization of the gay male body 
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<li> straight-acting masculinities and the rejection of the feminine 
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<li> narcissism, masculinity, and body absorption 
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<li> racialized masculinity 
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<li> the feminization of the Asian gay male in gay pornography 
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<li> gay male rape 
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<li> domestic violence 
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<li> and much more!</li>
</ul>Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws is an eye-opening re-evaluation of what being gay means, why being gay is still considered socially unacceptable, and how the gay male community can respond to systemic stigmatization and hate.

Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men's Lives

Martino, Wayne

Reference

Routledge

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