Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities (Feminist and Queer International Law)

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law. Traversing a wide range of topics, from trans discrimination and conversion therapy to sadomasochism and abolitionism, this book asks questions about the (im)possibility of freedom and equality for queer communities in the world and the role that different areas of international law have to play in such a pursuit.It considers how queer lives and bodies are rendered legible or illegible to the law through how we define concepts such as ‘gender [identity]’ or ‘private life’.It also reflects on whether legal activism focused on LGBTIQA+ rights can ever reflect the insights of queer theory.The book engages with new issues in international law, such as recent contestation over the meaning of ‘gender’ in international human rights law and international criminal law.It also showcases the diversity of approaches to queering international law that are emerging.While some chapters offer a critique of international law