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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the largely neglected place ofwomen defendants in contemporary international criminal law, beyond the construction of women as victims, and asks what the analysis ofwomen perpetrators, defendants and suspects reveals about international criminal law, the media and feminism.
The book uses the topic ofwomen perpetrators, defendants and suspects as a way to explore the concept of legal subjectivity via a gender analysis. It highlights how women perpetrators, defendants and suspects are constituted through three spheres, namely the areas of international criminal law, the media and feminism. In examining the relationship between women perpetrators, defendants and suspects and each of these spheres, the book exposes embedded gender biases and structural gender fractures. These reveal that problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict are embedded in the very foundations of legal imaginations. Ultimately, the book argues that this has far reaching
