Transgender and ‘Transsexuality’ as a Question of Human Rights. An Introduction Using Legal Cases

Authors

  • Arne Duncker Universität Hannover, Juristischer Fachbereich, Lehrgebiet Zivilrecht und Rechtsgeschichte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/441

Keywords:

Körper, Recht, Trans- und Intersexualitä, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Greif’s dissertation, a German language monograph on recent transgender law, is in many ways a pioneering study. The author presents a very nice case-based overview of the current legal precedents of the highest European courts (EuGH, EGMR). She supplements this with a summary of the Austrian legal situation and provides as background a description of the development of non-legal, specifically medical, discourses. The work is an important step in the legal processing of transgender discourses, which, up till now, has primarily taken place in the arena of cultural studies and medicine. This work should be widely distributed.

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Published

2006-07-13

Issue

No. 19 (2006): Religion

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2006 Arne Duncker

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