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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Early Contexts and Discussions.- Chapter 2: Family First Power Inequality and the Law from Early Modern to Modern Europe.- Chapter 3: The Domestication of Global Governance Women and Children as International Concerns during the Interwar Period.- Chapter 4: French Catholicism the Family and the Origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.- Chapter 5: The Right to the Family and Freedom of Movement Challenging Migration Restrictions during the Cold War.- Part 2: Women’s Rights as Human Rights.- Chapter 6: Domestic Violence under State Socialism in Europe Emancipating Women Abetting Perpetrators.- Chapter 7: Postcolonial Tensions of Equality at the United Nations Negotiating the Familial and the International in African Gender Politics of Human Rights.- Chapter 8: Historical, International, and Political Dimensions of Muslim Family Law Reform A Global Survey.- Chapter 9: Negotiating CEDAW The Story of How Unmarried Women Were Left Out of the Convention.- Part 3: Reproductive, Sexuality and Children’s Rights.- Chapter 10: Human Rights, the Family and Queer Internationalism Challenging Colonialities, Revising the History of Sexual Rights.- Chapter 11: A History of the Family in the United Nations Disability Policies since the 1970s.- Chapter 12: In the Name of the Nuclear Family Transnational Discourses on Reproductive Decision-making and Human Rights in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 13: Constructing the Family: Human Rights and Adoption.
