Crossing Borderlands of Inequality with International Legal Methodologies - The Promise of Multiple Feminisms

This work provides insights into the gendered developments of international law. It explores the roles played by the gendered rule of law and by the conflation of economic, social, political, religious, cultural, and historic realities in the marginalization of women in the international, regional, and domestic spheres worldwide. The first section presents the myriad locations of women\u27s persistent inequality. The next sets forth feminist theory that has been the basis of both the celebration of women\u27s progress and the denunciation of women\u27s subordination. The last part makes suggestions for the articulation of a methodology that follows the complex paths of policy orientation, legitimacy, and multiple feminisms and makes possible a women-centered jurisprudenc