From the International to the Local in Feminist Legal Responses to Rape, Prostitution/Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking: Four Studies in Contemporary Governance Feminism
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THE LOCAL IN
FEMINIST LEGAL RESPONSES TO
RAPE, PROSTITUTION/SEX WORK, AND
SEX TRAFFICKING:
FOUR STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY
GOVERNANCE FEMINISM
JANET HALLEY
PRABHA KOTISWARAN
HILA SHAMIR
CHANTAL THOMAS*
Table of Contents
In troduction ...................................................................................... 336
Part One: Describing Governance Feminism .................................... 340
JANET H ALLEY ................................................................................ 340
CHAN TAL THOM AS .......................................................................... 347
. Governance Feminism and Sex Trafficking ........................... 349
II. Governance Feminism and Sex Trafficking in the
United Nations and United States Contexts ........................ 352
A. The International Stage ................................................ 352
B. The United States Stage ................................................ 356
C. The Outcomes and the Aftermath .................................. 358
H ILA SH AM IR ................................................................................... 360
. Janet Halley is Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prabha Kotiswaran
received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Hila Shamir is an S.J.D. candidate at Har-
vard Law School. Chantal Thomas is professor of law at Fordham University School of
Law and visiting professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
We want to thank Duncan Kennedy for reading the manuscript, Karen Engle for com-
ments on Halley's contributions, Mary Lou Fellows for comments on Thomas's contribu-
tions, and Nomi Levenkron for comments on Shamir's contributions. Janet Halley acknowl-
edges particular debt to Engle's articles Feminism and its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing
Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 99 AM. J. INT'L L. 778 (2005) [hereinafter
Engle, Feminism and its (Dis)contents] and Liberal Internationalism, Feminism, and the
Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States,
46 HARV. INT'L L. J. 427 (2005). We also thank all the participants in the Governance Femi-
nism Seminar sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought in
March 2006. Last-minute research assistance from Elizabeth Lambert, Naomi Ronen, and
Janet C. Katz saved us. All errors of fact and judgment are ours.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/hwlj29&div=14&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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