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International Feminist Analysis

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SUMMARY Feminist Critiques of International Law and Their Critics Feminist Critism of International Law Feminist analysis of international law investigates the structure and the substance of the international legal system to perceive how women are incorporated into it. Feminist analysis of international law has two main parts, which is Deconstructive and Reconstructive. Deconstructive means challenging their claim to objectivity and rationality as the result of the limited base on which they are built. All instruments and categories of international legal analysis become problematic when we understand the avoidance of women from their construction. In this analysis, the state has its own particular complex set of power relations and issues …show more content…

From an international perspective, essentialism does not take into account for the historical and social differences between women of different …show more content…

Besides, if all cultures are viewed as special, laying on special values that can not be investigated in a general way, it is difficult to make any evaluation from an international perspective of the significance of particular concepts and practices for women. According to Annie Bunting (1993), Feminists use the universal category of “women” for very different ends than patriarchal theorists, and resistance to this feminist form of universalism undermines its powerful theoretical and political potential: theoretical in the sense that it is using a patriarchal tool against patriarchy and political in its mobilizing force. She refers to what is called as “asymmetrical anti-essentialism.” Feminist analysis of international law involves acknowledgment of the tension between universal theories and local experiences. Women have very different life experiences, and some of them have been experienced social disempowerment, exploitation and subordination which reaching out to the present. Feminist analysis lays on a commitment to challenge male dominance and to allow women

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