How do we understand feminism as a political practice? How is it a practice that changes our understanding of our selves and others?

Feminism was founded to provide a collective political movement for women. But subsequent generations of feminists have become preoccupied with the politics of identity, and a broader social conservatism has claimed politics to be obsolete and feminism as irrelevant. This has left the category of 'feminist politics' a troubling and much contested territory.

In this ground breaking new book, Kirsten Campbell takes up the debate, but instead of asking what feminist politics is or should be, she examines how feminism changes the ways we understand ourselves and others. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of feminist 'knowing' to create new conceptions of the political, before going on to develop a theory of that feminist knowing as political practice in itself.

This book provides an important and exciting contribution to contemporary feminist debates, and will be essential reading for academics and students working in the field of gender politics.

How do we understand feminism as a political practice? How is it a practice that changes our understanding of our selves and others?

Feminism was founded to provide a collective political movement for women. But subsequent generations of feminists have become preoccupied with the politics of identity, and a broader social conservatism has claimed politics to be obsolete and feminism as irrelevant. This has left the category of 'feminist politics' a troubling and much contested territory.

In this ground breaking new book, Kirsten Campbell takes up the debate, but instead of asking what feminist politics is or should be, she examines how feminism changes the ways we understand ourselves and others. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of feminist 'knowing' to create new conceptions of the political, before going on to develop a theory of that feminist knowing as political practice in itself.

This book provides an important and exciting contribution to contemporary feminist debates, and will be essential reading for academics and students working in the field of gender politics.

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Justice for conflict-related sexual violence remains a critical problem for global society today. This ground-breaking book addresses pressing questions for 'international justice': what do existing approaches to international justice offer to victims of war and societies in conflict? And what possibilities do they provide for feminist social transformation? The Justice of Humans develops a new feminist approach to 'international justice'. Adopting a socio-legal perspective, it studies two major contemporary examples of legal and feminist approaches to justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Women's Court (former Yugoslavia), focusing on their treatment of sexual violence as a gender-based crime. Drawing on feminist social theory, legal analysis, and empirical research, the book offers an innovative feminist framework for understanding 'international justice' and offers new theoretical and practical strategies for building feminist justice.

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