{"id":5795,"date":"2018-03-15T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T07:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/?page_id=5795"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T11:06:26","slug":"feminist-strategy-in-international-law-understanding-its-legal-normative-and-political-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/publication\/feminist-strategy-in-international-law-understanding-its-legal-normative-and-political-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wi-article-title article-title-main\"><strong>Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citation:\u00a0<\/strong><div id=\"zotpress-adcf560b2f710c5fd87dceec4e27e05f\" class=\"zp-Zotpress zp-Zotpress-Bib wp-block-group\">\n\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_API_USER_ID ZP_ATTR\">383706<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_ITEM_KEY ZP_ATTR\">{:IT9TAZYM}<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_COLLECTION_ID ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_TAG_ID ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_AUTHOR ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_YEAR ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"ZP_ITEMTYPE ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_INCLUSIVE ZP_ATTR\">1<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_STYLE ZP_ATTR\">apa<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_LIMIT ZP_ATTR\">50<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_SORTBY ZP_ATTR\">default<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_ORDER ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_TITLE ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_SHOWIMAGE ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_SHOWTAGS ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_DOWNLOADABLE ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_NOTES ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_ABSTRACT ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_CITEABLE ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_TARGET ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_URLWRAP ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZP_FORCENUM ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"ZP_HIGHLIGHT ZP_ATTR\"><\/span>\n        <span class=\"ZP_POSTID ZP_ATTR\">5795<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"ZOTPRESS_PLUGIN_URL ZP_ATTR\">https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/wp-content\/plugins\/zotpress\/<\/span>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"zp-List loading\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"zp-SEO-Content\">\n\n\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .zp-zp-SEO-Content -->\n\t\t<\/div><!-- .zp-List -->\n\t<\/div><!--.zp-Zotpress-->\n\n<\/p>\n<p>Access <a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ORourke-Feminist-Strategy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> While international law has typically waxed and waned in feminist favours, contemporary feminist engagements reveal a strongly critical, reflective thrust about the costs of engaging international law and the quality of ostensible gains. To inform this reflection, this article draws on feminist scholarship in international law \u2013 and a specific feminist campaign for the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security in Northern Ireland \u2013 to distil three distinct feminist understandings of international law that underpin both theory and advocacy. International law is understood, first, as a system of rules to which states are bound; second, as an avenue for the articulation of shared feminist values; and, third, as a political tool to advance feminist demands. The study finds that feminist doctrinalists, and those working within the institutions of international law, share concerns about the resolution\u2019s legal deficiencies and the broader place of the Security Council within international law-making. These concerns, however, are largely remote for local feminist activists, who recognize in the resolution important political resources to support their mobilization, their alliances with others and, ultimately, it is hoped, their engagement with state actors. The article concludes that critical reflection on feminist strategy in international law is usefully informed by more deliberate consideration of its legal, political and normative dimensions as well as by an awareness that these dimensions will be differently weighted by differently situated feminist actors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Northern Ireland, Gender, International Law<\/p>\n<p>Return to\u00a0search <a href=\"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/publications-database\/\">all publications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feminist Strategy in International Law: Understanding Its Legal, Normative and Political Dimensions Citation:\u00a0 Access article. 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