The Gender Politics of Legality: A Feminist Analysis of Legal Construction in International Law

The literature on legality in international law is markedly characterized by a concern with finding shared understandings and common semantics in order to identify, ascertain, and secure the boundaries between law and non-law. By combining law and society studies, along with cultural sociology and feminist epistemologies, this study seeks to explore the construction of legality (and its borders) through its places of contention, heterogeneity, and divergence.