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Cornell International Law Journal

Keywords

Transnational legal feminism

Abstract

Transnational legal feminism reflects the interconnection and interchange of feminist legal theories and feminist legal solutions across multiple jurisdictions. Some advocates who work across jurisdictions transpose feminist ideas and framings developed in one country to another country often without reflection. Often women’s rights advocates and scholars draw from feminist ideas, theories, and legal solutions developed in different temporal, historical, and social, and other contexts. There are number of opportunities this interchange creates but also a number of challenges. Feminists in the transnational world should recognize that practices can (but do not always) vary in meaning across different global contexts. Transnational legal feminism and feminists should be (but are often not) cautious about universalizing interpretations of practices as having the same women’s rights implications around the world and should contextualize those practices before drawing conclusions about them.

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