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1、LeidenJournalofInternationalLaw,21(2008),pp.235–253CFoundationoftheLeidenJournalofInternationalLawPrintedintheUnitedKingdomdoi:10.1017/S0922156507004839REVIEWESSAYSex,Love,andMarriage:QuestioningGenderandSexualityRightsinInternationalLaw∗AEYALM.GROSSNicholasBamforth
2、(ed.),SexRights:TheOxfordAmnestyLectures2002,Oxford,OxfordUniversityPress,2005,ISBN0192805614,306pp.,£14.99(pb).KarenKnop(ed.),GenderandHumanRights:TheCollectedCoursesoftheAcademyofEuropeanLaw,VolumeXII/2,2004,Oxford,OxfordUniversityPress,2004,ISBN0199260915,256pp.,£
3、30.00(pb).1.INTRODUCTION:THERISEOFSEXANDGENDERRIGHTSThecoverofSexRights:TheOxfordAmnestyLectures2002showsapictureoftwomenphotographedfromtheback,withtheirhandsholdingeachother’swaists.Theyarewalkingtowardsacameracrew.Basedonthewaytheyaredressed,itseemsthattheyhavejus
4、tbeenmarried.Bothmenarewearingwhitedressshirtsandhavesimilarhairstyles,withonewearingablackwaistcoatoverthewhiteshirtandtheotherwithblackbraces.Thiscollection,basedontheOxfordAmnestyLecturesseriesongenderandsexuality,thusapparentlyfeaturesonitscoverthesame-sexmarriag
5、eoftwomen,ostensiblyheldinoneofthefewjurisdictionsthathavelegalizedsuchaunion(perhapstheNetherlands,whichwasthefirsttodoso,andwaslaterfollowedbyBelgium,Spain,Canada,Massachusetts(UnitedStates),andSouthAfrica).Andwhileweknowthat‘loveandmarriagegotogetherlikeahorseandca
6、rriage’,whathassexgottodowiththis?WoulditnotbemoreappropriateforacoverofabookentitledSexRightstofeaturetwopersonsengagedinsexorhavingjustengagedinsexratherthanamarriageceremony?Woulditnotbemoreappropriatetodepict,onacoverofabookcalledSexRights,apictureoftwomeninaposi
7、tionthatsuggeststheyhavejusthadsex,anactforwhichtheycouldbepersecutedandprosecutedinvariousjurisdictions?Sowhy,then,doesabookonSexRightsfeaturesame-sexmarriageonitscover?∗TelAvivUniversityFacultyofLaw.IamgratefultotheMinervaCenterforHumanRightsandtheCeglaCenterforInt
8、erdisciplinaryResearchoftheLaw,bothatTel-AvivUniversity,fortheirsupportoftheresearchforthisessay,andtoHediViterboforhisresearchassi