Abstract
This article excavates and analyses an early, feminist conversation about law that emerged from foundational texts on Gender and Development (GAD). Rather than starting from current, law-heavy GAD practices, it goes backwards to see what, if anything, some canonical texts published between 1970 and 1989 said about law. My aim is to offer an account of legally-relevant GAD theorising written before the current consensus about law reform as a tool had solidified, and – in so doing – to unsettle that consensus and identify some intellectual inheritances that might offer us an alternative way forward.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the scholars who have helped me clarify the argument presented here, especially Donatella Alessandrini, Ruth Buchanan, John Harrington, Sonia Lawrence, Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Prabha Kotisworan, Shirin Rai, Sharifah Sekalala, and Ann Stewart. An anonymous reviewer also provided excellent suggestions.
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- Frontmatter
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- On the Borderline: Who Is a “Traditional Inhabitant” under the Torres Strait Treaty?
- The Strategic Use of International Investment Law in Colombia – Textiles: Navigating within the International Regime Complex for Development
- Operationalizing and Measuring Rule of Law in an Internationalized Transitional Context: The Virtue of Venice Commission’s Rule of Law Checklist
- Local Level Decentralization in Ethiopia: Case Study of Tigray Regional State
- Local Government Law, Development and Cross-border Trade in the Global Cities of SADC
- Engendering Constitutional Realization of Sustainable Development in Nigeria
- Source-Based Taxing Rights from the OECD to the UN Model Conventions: Unavailing Efforts and an Argument for Reform
- Law, Gender, and Development: Potent Hauntings
- Islamic Social Finance in Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities of the Institutional and Regulatory Landscape
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