Governance Feminism: An Introduction - Hardcover

Halley, Janet; Kotiswaran, Prabha; Rebouché, Rachel; Shamir, Hila

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816698457 ISBN 13: 9780816698455

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state

Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance.

The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law.

Governance feminism poses new challenges for feminists: How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way?  

Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Halley is Royal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. 

Prabha Kotiswaran is reader in law and social justice at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.

Rachel Rebouché is professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. 

Hila Shamir is associate professor of law at Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816698457
• ISBN 13: 9780816698455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304