Governance Feminism: An Introduction

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Governance Feminismshows how some feminists and feminist ideas have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Collecting examples from the U.S., Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law, the authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributedemerging from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy.

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"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 womens rights."Choice

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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, Kings College London.

Rachel Rebouch 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.