The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis

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Book Overview

Foreword
Preface
List of abbreviations

1 Women and the international legal system

• Introduction
• Gender and sex
• The global position of women
• International legal responses to the position of women
• The approach of this book

2 Feminist theories and international law

• Introduction
• Theories of international law
• Natural law
• Positivism
• Liberal international legal theory
• The 'New Haven' school
• 'Newstream' theories
• 'Southern' theories of international law
• Feminist theories of law
• Liberal feminism
• Cultural feminism
• Radical feminism
• Post-modern feminism
• Third world feminisms
• Using feminist theories in international law
• Essentialism
• Exploring public/private distinctions in international law
• Conclusion

3 Modes of international law-making

• Introduction
• Sources of international law
• Statute of the ICJ, article 38(1)
• Other sources
• Debates on the sources of international law
• Women's participation in international law-making
• Customary international law and 'soft' law
• General principles of law
• Subsidiary sources of law
• Broadening the sources of law
• NGOs
• International civil society
• Conclusion

4 The law of treaties

• Introduction
• The process of treaty-making
• Treaty negotiation
• NGOs and treaty-making
• Reservations
• Implementation of treaties into domestic law
• Jus cogens
• Treaty termination
• Conclusion

5 The idea of the state

• Introduction
• The concept of statehood in international law
• A permanent population
• Defined territory
• Government
• Capacity to enter into relations with other states
• Jus cogens
• The sex of the state
• Recognition and statehood
• State jurisdiction
• Immunity from jurisdiction
• State responsibility
• Self-determination in international law
• The right to self-determination
• Self-determination and Palestinian women
• Rethinking self-determination
• Recasting the state

6 International institutions

• Introduction
• International inter-governmental institutions
• Women in the UN
• Participation of women
• UN responses
• Sexual harassment
• Women's participation and representation in decision- and policy-making
• Gender mainstreaming
• Conclusion

7 Human rights

• Introduction
• The evolution of human rights law
• Feminist critiques of rights
• Women's rights in international law
• General instruments
• Women-specific instruments
• Inadequacies of human rights law for women
• Marginalisation of women's rights
• Inadequate enforcement and implementation
• The influence of cultural relativism
• The limited understanding of 'equality' in international law
• 'Human' rights as men's rights
• First generation rights
• Second generation rights
• Third generation rights
• Women and human rights law
• Invocation of international rights in national fora
• A complaints mechanism for the Women's Convention
• Gender 'mainstreaming' in human rights treaty bodies
• Conclusion

8 The use of force in international law

• Introduction
• The impact of armed conflict on women
• Rape and sexual violence
• Daily survival
• Changing roles of women in armed conflict
• Women and the use of force
• The use of force under international law
• Self-defence
• Self-determination
• Humanitarian intervention
• Conclusion

9 Peaceful settlement of disputes

• Introduction
• Identification of an international dispute
• Dispute resolution under the UN Charter
• The concept of collective security
• Peace-making
• Peaceful dispute resolution
• 'Alternative' dispute resolution and women
• Women and international dispute resolution
• Peacekeeping
• The scope of peacekeeping
• Peacekeeping: the absence of women
• Legal protection and regulation of peacekeepers
• Preventive diplomacy and peace-building
• Economic sanctions
• Conclusion

10 Redrawing the boundaries of international law

• Introduction
• Women in international criminal law
• Women's participation in the Tribunals
• Jurisdiction of the Tribunals
• International humanitarian law
• Genocide
• Crimes against humanity
• Prosecution policies and judicial interpretation
• Rules of procedure and evidence
• Has international criminal law been transformed?

Conclusion
Bibliography
Table of cases
Table of treaties
Index

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