Feminist perspectives on contemporary international law
Subtitle: between resistance and compliance?
By: edited by Sari Kouvo and Zoe Pearson
Series: Oñati international series in law and society; Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781841134284
Subjects: Feminist jurisprudence; Sociological aspects; International law; Women (International law)
Description: "The essays in this volume analyse feminism's positioning vis-à-vis international law and the current paradigms of international law. The authors argue that, willingly or unwillingly, feminist perspectives on international law have come to be situated between 'resistance' and 'compliance'. That is, feminist scholarship aims at deconstructing international law to show why and how 'women' have been marginalised; at the same time feminists have been largely unwilling to challenge the core of international law and its institutions, remaining hopeful of international law's potential for women. The analysis is clustered around three themes: the first part, theory and method, looks at how feminist perspectives on international law have developed and seeks to introduce new theoretical and methodological tools (especially through a focus on psychoanalysis and geography). The second part, national and international security, focuses on how feminists have situated themselves in relation to the current discourses of 'crisis', the post-9/11 NGO 'industry' and the changing discourses of violence against women. The third part, global and local justice, addresses some of the emerging trends in international law, focusing especially on transitional justice, state-building, trafficking and economic globalisation."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Talking to ourselves? Feminist scholarship in international law / Hilary Charlesworth; title: Searching for virtue in international law / Yoriko Otomo; title: Feminist project(s) : the spaces of international law / Zoe Pearson; title: Remapping crisis through a feminist lens / Dianne Otto; title: Road blocks, blind spots, speed bumps : a feminist look at the post-9/11 landscape for NGOs / Julie Mertus; title: The politics of inevitability : an examination of Janet Halley's critique of the criminalisation of rape as torture / Maria Grahn-Farley; title: Missionary zeal for a secular mission : bringing gender to transitional justice and redemption to feminism / Vasuki Nesiah; title: Taking women seriously? Conflict, state-building and gender in Afghanistan / Sari Kouvo; title: Trafficking in human beings : vulnerability, criminal law and human rights / Ulrika Andersson; title: Women workers take over power at the margins : economic resistance, political compliance / Dania Thomas.