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Governance Feminism
An Introduction
Janet Halley (Author), Prabha Kotiswaran (Author), Rachel Rebouché (Author), Hila Shamir (Author)
9780816698455
Hardback, published 13 March 2018
304 pages, 1
21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg
"What happens when feminist critique inverts into governing norms? What kind of feminism becomes law and what becomes of arguments among feminists when it does? How are feminist challenges to male super-ordination transformed and distributed by bureaucratization and NGO-ification? How might we honestly assess feminism that governs? In this deeply intelligent, reflective, and pedagogical work, four feminist legal scholars probe these theoretical and empirical questions. No reader will favor every move, but all will be usefully provoked and instructed."-Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley "The book delivers a good summary of which feminist theories have prevailed and can be seen as the governing ones. Excellent for collections on feminism and women’s rights."-Choice
Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state 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.
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.
Contents
Introduction: An Ethic of Responsibility
Janet Halley
Part I. Varieties of Governance Feminism
1. Where in the Legal Order Have Feminists Gained Inclusion?
Janet Halley
2. Which Forms of Feminism Have Gained Inclusion?
Janet Halley
3. Dancing across the Minefield: Feminists Reflect on Generating, Owning, and Critiquing Power
Janet Halley
Part II. From the Transnational to the Local
4. Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India’s Rape Laws
Prabha Kotiswaran
5. Anti-trafficking in Israel: Neo-abolitionist Feminists, Markets, Borders, and the State
Hila Shamir
6. When Rights Return: Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive Rights and against Sex-selective Abortion
Rachel RebouchÉ
Conclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance Feminism
Janet Halley
Acknowledgments
Index