Labenski, Sheri. 2024. Women Defendants and International Law: Feminist Dialogues. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367245238 [Book]

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This book addresses the largely neglected place of women defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism.

The book uses the topic of women perpetrators, defendants and suspects as a way to explore the concept of legal subjectivity via a gender analysis. It highlights how women perpetrators, defendants and suspects are constituted through three spheres, namely the areas of international criminal law, the media and feminism. In examining the relationship between women perpetrators, defendants and suspects and each of these spheres, the book exposes embedded gender biases and structural gender fractures. These reveal that problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict are embedded in the very foundations of legal imaginations. Ultimately, the book argues that this has far reaching consequences, beyond its impact on current understandings of armed conflict. Rather, these assumptions should be a concern for us all, even in times of peace.

This book will be of use to legal academics and practitioners interested in gender within international criminal law, as well as those concerned with contemporary feminist approaches to law.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Law
Date:	5 July 2024
Item ID:	34782
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2024 09:40
Last Modified:	18 Jul 2024 11:00
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34782

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