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25 Stud. Transnat'l Legal Pol'y 1 (1993)
Alienating Oscar - Feminist Analysis of International law

handle is hein.journals/stdtlp25 and id is 17 raw text is: ALIENATING OSCAR? FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW HILARY CHARLESWORTH As far as I am aware, the first conference devoted to feminist approaches to international law was held at the Australian National University in August 1990. It was preceded by a conference on The Role of Consent in International Law at which a number of the most venerable figures in international law today spoke.' Some of these distinguished men, including Professor Oscar Schachter, stayed on to attend the feminist conference. They listened to papers on a wide range of topics. Some papers ignored the academic conventions of detached. analysis: they were angry, passionate, and emotional. Worst of all, they were personal. The sprinkling of men in the room no doubt felt rather vulnerable, atypically surrounded by women, and having their discipline roundly attacked in an ungentlemanly fashion. The day after the conference one of our colleagues remonstrated that, while he was all in favor of academic debate on serious issues, the worst aspect of the proceedings was that they had managed to estrange and upset our eminent guests: in particular, we had alienated Oscar.2 As this is the first chapter, I propose to offer a broad response to my assigned topic: what is a feminist analysis of international law? I hope to offer some sort of framework or context for the chapters which follow,