Overview

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.

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Author:   Sari Kouvo ,  Zoe Pearson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9781841134284

ISBN 10:   1841134287
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   11 May 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Sari Kouvo and Zoe Pearson PART ONE: FEMINIST THEORY AND METHOD IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Navigating Feminisms: At the Margins, in the Mainstreams or Elsewhere? Reflections on Charlesworth, Otomo and Pearson Vanessa Munro 2. Talking to Ourselves? Feminist Scholarship in International Law Hilary Charlesworth 3. Searching for Virtue in International Law Yoriko Otomo 4. Feminist Project(s): The Spaces of International Law Zoe Pearson PART TWO: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Three Feminist Critiques of Varying Feminist Capitulations to Crisis-Hegemony. Reflections on Otto, Mertus and Grahn-Farley Anna Grear 5. Remapping Crisis through a Feminist Lens Dianne Otto 6. Road Blocks, Blind Spots, Speed Bumps: A Feminist Look at the Post-9/11 Landscape for NGOs Julie Mertus 7. The Politics of Inevitability: An Examination of Janet Halley's Critique of the Criminalisation of Rape as Torture Maria Grahn-Farley PART THREE: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL AND LOCAL JUSTICE From the Margins to the Mainstream and Back Again: Problems and Paradoxes of Feminist Engagement in Global and Local Justice. Reflections on Nesiah, Kouvo, Andersson, and Thomas Alice Edwards 8. Missionary Zeal for a Secular Mission: Bringing Gender to Transitional Justice and Redemption to Feminism Vasuki Nesiah 9. Taking Women Seriously? Conflict, State-building and Gender in Afghanistan Sari Kouvo 10. Trafficking in Human Beings: Vulnerability, Criminal Law and Human Rights Ulrika Andersson 11. Women Workers Take Over Power at the Margins: Economic Resistance, Political Compliance Dania Thomas 12. Concluding (or Beginning?) Thoughts: Postcards to the Future Sari Kouvo and Zoe Pearson

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...a worthwhile work by some of the world's leading feminist theorists [that] offers a challenging and thought-provoking account.Ramona VijeyarasaThe International Journal of Transitional JusticeVolume 7, 2013

...contains high-level, cutting-edge research that will be of interest to all those working in the field of international law. This collection of essays reflects the sophisticated nature of contemporary feminists' engagement with international law. The standard of the contributions is consistently high, and overall the book raises a number of important questions about the future of feminism and international law and points to a range of international law spaces, both large and small, that are open to radical re-understandings. Bringing together eminent writers with a great variety of scholarly interests, it also demonstrates the utility of inter-disciplinarity to feminist thought and methodology. Loveday Hodson European Journal of International Law, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2013 and globallawbooks.org, 22nd November 2013 ...a worthwhile work by some of the world's leading feminist theorists [that] offers a challenging and thought-provoking account. Ramona Vijeyarasa The International Journal of Transitional Justice Volume 7, 2013

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Dr Sari Kouvo is Senior Program Associate with the International Centre for Transitional Justice and Co-Director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. Dr Zoe Pearson is a lecturer in the School of Law, Keele University.

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