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3 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 293 (1993)
Re/Statements: Feminism and State Sovereignty in International Law

handle is hein.journals/tlcp3 and id is 303 raw text is: Re/Statements: Feminism and State Sovereignty in
International Lawt
Karen Knop*
I.      Introduction    ................................................................. 294
II.     Statism     .....................................................................298
III.    Centrality of the State ..................................................... 308
IV.     The State As Bounded, Unified Self .................................. 318
A.      The State as Individual ........................................ 320
1.      Relations Between States ............................ 323
2.      Jurisdiction in International
L aw   .......................................................... 328
B.      Breaking Down the State ...................................... 332
1.      Policy-Oriented and Functionalist
Approaches to Sovereignty .......................... 334
2.      Normative Approaches to Sovereignty .......... 341
V .     Conclusion    ................................................................... 343
t Portions of this Article expand on ideas contained in Karen Knop, Why Rethinking
the Sovereign State is Important for Women's International Human Rights Law, in
HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (Rebecca J.
Cook ed., forthcoming 1994) (on file with author).
* Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. I am grateful to Hilary Charlesworth,
Christine Chinkin, John Claydon, Rebecca Cook, Ralph Glass, and Mayo Moran for
their insightful and supportive comments on earlier work. Jo Anne Frenschkowski
provided wonderful last-minute research assistance. My thanks also go to the
International Law Society and Women and the Law, Queen's University for giving me
the opportunity to present a first version of the Article.

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