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AuthorHilary Lim
Published date01 December 2003
DOI10.1177/0964663903012004010
Date01 December 2003
Subject MatterReviews
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SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES 12(4)
and have been updated or revised for publication here. That is not a problem and it is
useful to have them collected together in one place.
There are a lot of books now on transgender issues but few on legal issues and
Whittle’s is a welcome addition to the literature. There is something in here to inter-
est and inform readers from a variety of backgrounds particularly those interested in
transgender theory and the transgender movement, legal practitioners and other pro-
fessionals such as those in the police, probation, and prison services and campaigners
working for the transgender community.
REFERENCES
Whittle, S. (1998) ‘The Trans-Cyberian Mail Way’, Social & Legal Studies 7(3):
389–408.
DAVE KING
University of Liverpool, UK
JANE K. COWAN, MARIE-BENEDICTE DEMBOUR AND RICHARD A. WILSON (eds),
Culture and Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 258 pp., £15.95.
The essays in this collection evolved out of the Sussex Workshop on Culture and
Rights held in Brighton in July 1997. This workshop aimed to draw together inter-
national scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore claims to culture couched
in rights language, from and within a variety of different social movements and con-
temporary struggles. That particular conjunction of rights and culture, claiming
cultural rights, remains a focus within the collection, specifically within its second
part, which consists of a series of local case studies. While the individual chapters are
concerned with distinct grass roots movements situated in varied contexts, from
across four continents, this part of the book is fairly cohesive. Several of the con-
tributors identify a tension arising from the recognition that, while human rights dis-
course may offer one of the few means of advancement for those involved in political
struggles, taking up that opportunity has unintended consequences which are often
very far from being either empowering or enabling.
It is argued in this text that one outcome...

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