Feminist Approaches to International Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23602102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dianne Otto (0000-0003-3000-6502, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 488-504 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/law/9780198701958.003.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2567761375 |
| ISBN | 9780198701958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This chapter describes encounters between feminism and international law in four parts. It begins by outlining the diversity of feminist visions for (and against) international law to highlight the dynamism of the field, the contestation between its various political and legal commitments, and the different ways that the feminist subject of law is conceived. Secondly, the chapter examines the range of critical analyses that feminists have developed in the wake of a particular 1991 American Journal of International Law (AJIL) article. The chapter then explores the trajectories of feminist reform projects in international law. Lastly, this chapter highlights the paradoxes of feminist engagement with international law, arguing that the practices of critique and reform, and their productive tensions, are essential to resisting the law’s colonization of feminist politics and keeping feminist imaginaries of a better world alive.
Dynamism · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · International law · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |