Fikfak, Veronika;
(2025)
A Behavioural Approach to Feminist Studies.
In: van Aaken, Anne and Hirsch, Moshe, (eds.)
International Legal Theories and the Behavioural Turn.
(pp. 109-130).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
Feminist studies have sought to provide us with a critical analysis of international law. In particular, they have aimed to show how existing structures, processes, and methodologies of international law marginalise women by failing to take into account their lives and experiences. In many respects, this literature has argued for a need for women to be represented in the international legal community, including on judicial and arbitration panels, and for their different voices to be heard as an essential part of international law. These calls have yielded great changes in law and in the composition of judicial panels. Yet, behavioural and psychological sciences can add further insights to feminist studies: they can illuminate why and how discrimination arises; to what extent the biases that drive it are unconscious; and how insidious they are. Insights from these sciences can help us understand better how and why discrimination and structural inequality endure.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Behavioural Approach to Feminist Studies |
| ISBN-13: | 9780198909262 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/9780198909293.003.0006 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198909293.003.0006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Feminist studies, behavioural sciences, cognitive sciences, psychological sciences, bias, voice, glass ceiling, women |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10211346 |
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