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33 Va. J. Int'l L. 647 (1992-1993)
Feminism and International Law: A Reply

handle is hein.journals/vajint33 and id is 657 raw text is: ESSAY Feminism and International Law: A Reply FERNANDO R. TES6N* I. INTRODUCTION Over the past several years, legal scholars have extended feminist theory to many areas of the law, and legal discourse has been enriched by feminist jurisprudence. Until recently, however, international law had not undergone a sustained feminist critique. This gap is now slowly being filled; a notable contribution to that effort is a recent article by Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright.' This Essay presents a reply to the Charlesworth-Chinkin-Wright critique. Although much of this reply engages more general issues in feminist theory, it would be impossible, within the scope of this work, to address every important political, cultural, biological, epistemologi- cal, and metaphysical issue raised by the various feminist critiques of traditional jurisprudence. I therefore confine the analysis to argu- ments directly relevant to international law, focusing on the analogies * Professor of Law, Arizona State University. The article is adapted from my book. Fernando R. Tes6n, The Philosophy of International Law (forthcoming 1994). Research for this article was supported by the summer research program at Arizona State Univerity College of Law. Many thanks to Lea Brilmayer and to the participants of the International Jurisprudence Colloquium at the New York University School of Law. Many thanks also to Jeff Murphy and Cynthia Ward, who made very useful comments to an earlier draft. Copyright © Fernando R. Tes6n 1992. Do not cite or otherwise use without permission. 1. See Hilary Charlesworth et al., Feminist Approaches to International Law, 85 Am. J. Int'l L. 613 (1991). The article won the Francis Deik Prize.

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