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[Book Review] The Boundaries Of International Law, A Feminist Analysis: Hilary Charlesworth & Christine Chinkin
ExpertLaw (2004)
  • Amin George Forji, University of Helsinki
Abstract
The Boundaries of International Law is about why issues of sex and gender matter in public international law. Its central argument is that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it. The authors in this book examine in a broad but concise manner all topics of International law, then use these international law arguments to find out if International law is a true representation of the masculine and the fair sex. This interesting piece is divided up into ten broad chapters with each concerned with a unique appreciation of the international law concern in question ,then using these arguments to justify that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence but among other things legitimised the unequal position of women around the world rather than challenged. This they do by comparing the international law norms with the actual reality and drawing the conclusion that both are biased towards women.
Keywords
  • sex,
  • gender,
  • international law,
  • feminism,
  • women and law
Publication Date
Summer July 1, 2004
Citation Information
Amin George Forji. "[Book Review] The Boundaries Of International Law, A Feminist Analysis: Hilary Charlesworth & Christine Chinkin" ExpertLaw Vol. 1 Iss. 7/2004 (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amingeorgeforji/2/