Explores the ways women seek justice through the nation-state, global process and international criminal justice mechanisms. This book draws on a diversity of academic and advocate voices in examining how women have accessed justice under conditions of globalisation, militarization and colonisation.

Global issues, women and justice Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert Domestic Justice: Negotiating with the Nation-state Editors' 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 International Justice: Engaging with Global Processes Editors' 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 Sharon Pickering and Michael Gard International Criminal Justice: Engaging Women Activists Editors' 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 collection provides a rich and textured set of portraits of women struggling for justice around the globe. It gives feminists inspiration for their theorising and at the same time theoretical insights for their activism. - Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University 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 This timely collection highlights the urgent need for effective strategies to support the agency of women. These testing critical engagements with diverse forms of women's activism test the limits and possibilities of concepts such as 'feminism' and 'sisterhood' in ways that are both productive and cautionary. - Dr Maryanne Dever, Monash University