Global Issues, Women and Justice explores the ways women seek justice through the nation-state, global process, and international criminal justice mechanisms. It draws on a diversity of academic and advocate voices in examining how women have accessed justice under conditions of globalization, militarization, and colonization.

Global Issues, Women and Justice will appeal to academics and activists as a valuable resource for research. As well, it provides numerous case studies of the ways women have mobilized to achieve justice, which will be useful both in the classroom and in campaigning.

Published by the Institute of Criminology, Sydney

Table of Contents

PART ONE: DOMESTIC JUSTICE: NEGOTIATING WITH THE NATION-STATE
Editor's Introduction
Women’s rights and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: an unfinished agenda - Lyn Graybill
Narrating women and asylum: hostile administrative-legal justice - Sharon Pickering
Militarisation, gender and ethnicity in Southern Mexico - Lynn Stephen
Living in the circle and thinking inside the square - Nerida Blair

PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE: ENGAGING WITH GLOBAL PROCESSES
Editor's Introduction
Partial sites and partial sightings: women and the UN human rights treaty system - Caroline Lambert
Aboriginal women’s struggles for justice in Canada - Evelyn Zellerer
‘Engendering’ development-centred, rights-based, equitable trade policy - Marceline White
Kader, compensation and justice: the need for a comprehensive analysis - Fiona Haines and Cate Lewis
Everybody’s business: the privatisation of women’s imprisonment -Aaron Pickering and Michael Gard

PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ENGAGING WOMEN ACTIVISTS
Editor's Introduction
Challenging international law: the quest for justice of the former ‘comfort women’ - Indai Lourdes Sajor
All roads lead to Rome, but some are bumpier than others - Alda Facio
Untold numbers: East Timorese women and traditional justice - Susan Harris Rimmer

Index

"This is contemporary feminism par excellence. It provides inspirational accounts of women's activism that add significantly to knowledge and at the same time constitutes a major challenge to understandings and practices of justice. The book will be a significant turning point in feminist criminology in Australia. It fractures the boundaries of the discipline and challenges basic understandings. At the same time it is inspirational reading about women's struggles for justice across the globe."

-- Associate Professor Christine Alder, University of Melbourne