Women and the Law of Peoples

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-306

  Nussbaum, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

equality; international relations; justice; Rawls; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 85004415432     PISSN: 1470594X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X02001003001     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Quoted in Bina Agarwal, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. xvi.
2. Quoted in Martha Chen, A Quiet Revolution: Women in Transition in Rural Bangladesh (Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1983), pp. 154–5.
3. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 3. Subsequent references to this work are designated by the letters ‘TJ’. Likewise, J. Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) is designated by the letters ‘PL’; The Law of Peoples with “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999) is designated by the letters ‘LPa’; and the earlier article ‘The Law of Peoples’, in On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993, ed. Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley (New York: Basic Books, 1993), pp. 41–82, by the letters ‘LPb’.
4. See Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Subsequent references to this work are designated by the letters ‘WHD’.
5. Compare TJ, pp. 27, 29, 185-9.
6. Quoted by Amrita Chhachhi, ‘Identity Politics, Secularism and Women: a South Asian Perspective’, in Forging Identities, edited by Zoya Hasan (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994): p. 74. See also Zoya Hasan, ‘Minority Identity, State Policy and the Political Process’, in Forging Identities: pp. 59–73, at pp. 69–70: ‘Inevitably, through the Muslim Women's Bill, the multiple identities which men and women possess were ignored, as was the distinction between minority and gender identity. Though the issue was one of women's rights, the State only acknowledged an ungendered identity for Muslim women.’
7. J.S. Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869), edited by S.M. Okin (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1988), p. 2.
8. On these matters, see further Martha Nussbaum, ‘India: Implementing Sex Equality through Law’, Chicago Journal of International Law 2 (2001): pp. 35–58.