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Integrating mainstream international legal studies with critical feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law as well as how international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues.

Argues that Israel's 1993 agreement to negotiate with the Palestinians in 1996 on the city's status incurred an obligation under international law to do nothing prior to that date that could negate resolution of the issue, and thus the new East Jerusalem housing it built for Jews in 1993-95 violated the agreement.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- Part I Women and the law: Addressing Inequality -- 1 IN PURSUIT OF GENDER-RESPONSIVE LEGISLATION: Transforming women's lives through the law -- 2 WOMEN'S RIGHTS - THE STATE OF PLAY: How far have we come since the Beijing Declaration? -- Part II Legislating for women: Successes and setbacks in delivering gender-responsive outcomes for women -- 3 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW: When good intentions go awry in practice -- 4 TOWARDS A GENDER-TRANSFORMATIVE APPROACH TO ABORTION: Legislative perspectives from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 EMPLOYING THE LAW FOR WOMEN: Gender, work and legal regulation in Australi -- 6 ENHANCING EQUALITY IN POLITICAL LIFE: Successes and limitations with electoral gender quotas -- Part III Legislating with women in mind -- 7 GENDER, RACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: A feminist critique -- 8 'NO ONE LEFT BEHIND'?: Gender equality in taxation and the UN 2030 Global Agenda -- 9 WOMEN IN ANTICORRUPTION LAWS: The case for more gender-responsive international treaties -- Part IV Accountability for embedding women's rights in domestic law -- 10 CEDAW AND GLOBAL STANDARDS FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS: The Convention's actual and potential influence as an accountability mechanism for gender-sensitive legislation -- 11 LIGHTING THE SPARK: Reimagining the statutory landscape through the Feminist Legislation Project -- 12 GENDER AUDITS AND LEGISLATIVE SCRUTINY: Do parliamentary human rights bodies have a role to play? -- 13 CONCLUSION - WOMEN AND THE LAW: The challenges ahead for gender-responsive legislation -- INDEX.