Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary International Law : Between Resistance and Compliance?

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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