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25 Stud. Transnat'l Legal Pol'y 143 (1993)
After the Collape of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights

handle is hein.journals/stdtlp25 and id is 159 raw text is: AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION: STRATEGIZING WOMEN'S RIGHTS KAREN ENGLE Over the past fifteen years, women's rights advocates-generally feminists of one stripe or another-have staged a multitiered critique of public international law, focusing largely on its exclusion of women.' Most would agree that the critique has been successful in many ways, but not so successful in others. Evidence of the lack of success is that we still continue to talk about some issues in the ways that they were talked about fifteen years ago. That is, we still tend to focus on women's exclusion and on our marginality vis-i-vis public international law. Central to the critiques of international law have been analyses of the public/private distinction. They generally take one of two forms. Either women's rights advocates argue that public international law, and particularly human rights theory, is flawed because it is not really universal. That is, because international law excludes from its scope the private, or domestic, sphere-presumably the space in which women operate-it cannot include them. Or advocates argue that international law does not really exclude the private, but rather uses the public/private divide as a convenient screen to avoid addressing women's issues. Those who take the first approach, then, take for granted that public international law in its present form cannot enter

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