Feminist Dialogues on International Law

Successes, Tensions, Futures

Author: Gina Heathcote

Integrating mainstream international legal studies with critical feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law as well as how international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues.

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In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict. Contributing to the development of feminist and genderscholarship on international law, Gina Heathcote provides a feminist analysis of the central pillars of international law, noting the advances and limitations of feminist approaches.Through incorporating into mainstream international legal studies specific critical and feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law, and the manner in which international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues. It argues for a return to structural bias feminism that engages the foundations of international law and uses gender as a method for challenging post-millennium narratives on fragmentation, the role ofinternational institutions, the nature of legal authority, sovereignty, and the role of international legal experts.

About the Author

Gina Heathcote is a Reader in Gender Studies and International Law at SOAS University of London. Gina is the author of The Law on the Use of Force: a Feminist Analysis and co-editor (with Professor Dianne Otto) of Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security. She has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on collective security, feminist approaches to international law and international law on the use of force, andis a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective.

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In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict. Contributing to the development of feminist and genderscholarship on international law, Gina Heathcote provides a feminist analysis of the central pillars of international law, noting the advances and limitations of feminist approaches. Through incorporating into mainstream international legal studies specific critical and feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law, and the manner in which international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues. It argues for a return to structural bias feminism that engages the foundations of international law and uses gender as a method for challenging post-millennium narratives on fragmentation, the role ofinternational institutions, the nature of legal authority, sovereignty, and the role of international legal experts.