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Intimate Matters: Discovery Avenues Towards Straight Women's Human Rights, Alice Bullard Ph.D.
Intimate Matters: Discovery Avenues Towards Straight Women's Human Rights, Alice Bullard Ph.D.
Alice Bullard Ph.D.
“Intimate Matters: Discovering Avenues toward Straight Women’s Human Rights” © Alice Bullard, Ph.D., J.D. expected May 2012 email: ab654@law.georgetown.edu Abstract: This paper demonstrates the need, and the legal right under international human rights law to support, for developing and teaching intimate strategies for women’s emancipation. The international human rights agenda largely overlooks heterosexual sex is a facet of women’s subjugation; we argue here to correct that oversight, to integrate an understanding of the potential of heterosexual sex to (re)produce women’s subordination, and to sketch a program to combat this tendency. At issue is not overt sexual violence or sexual acts …