European Sexual Citizenship: Human Rights, Bodies and by Francesca Romana Ammaturo

By Francesca Romana Ammaturo

This publication is an cutting edge and significant contribution to the examine of the human rights of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) humans within the context of Europe. Combining felony and Foucauldian ways, it investigates the ways that present discourses approximately LGBTIQ rights in Europe are tightly absolute to modern debates approximately nationwide and trans-national citizenship. the writer defines and analyzes the idea that of 'multisexual citizenship' to demonstrate new, versatile kinds of sexual and gendered citizenship which can appreciably remodel practices of citizenship and the present human rights framework in Europe. She does this through combining severe deconstructions of the case legislations of the eu courtroom of Human Rights with ethnographic observations and sociological research. This interdisciplinary paintings will entice sociologists, attorneys and researchers of gender and LGBTIQ rights.

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