| Governance Feminism: An Introduction 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. Janet Halley is Royal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prabha Kotiswaran is reader in law and social justice at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Rachel Rebouché is professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Hila Shamir is associate professor of law at Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law. |