A CRITICAL INSPECTION INTO THE CHAUVINISM OF THE FEMINISM OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Keywords:
Feminism, Chauvinism, International lawAbstract
This paper will analyze two articles and highlight how in spite of their attempts at voicing the silence of women in the International Legal world, it continued to retain a certain amount of chauvinism. In the first part of this paper I will study the article titled, ‘Feminists Critiques of International Law and Their Critics’ by Hilary Charlesworth. Three major arguments shall be seen here. The first one will be about how feminism is looked at as a “response” or a “reaction” to opposing forces, the second argument shall critique the public-private divide and lastly, the third argument shall show how a hierarchy is enforced where the violence of not being a democracy is ranked higher than the violence of being a woman. The second part of this paper I will study the article titled, ‘Feminism and International Law: An Opportunity for Transformation’ by Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks. In this there will be two strands of arguments. The first argument shall be about how monism and this separation of international from domestic proliferates oppression of women. The second argument shall be about how Brooks ends up creating a body of knowledge which further works to inscribe the subordination of women. Hilary Charlesworth in her essay, points to two Major Goals of Feminist Analysis. The first one being what she calls, “deconstruction.” This involves a certain unpacking the explicit and implicit values of International Law because the rational claim they build themselves on is made up of the exclusion of women.
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