APPROCCI GIURIDICI FEMMINISTI AL DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE: VERSO UN DIRITTO ECO-FEMMINISTA E POST-UMANO?

The purpose of this contribution is to present feminism as a method to think (and re-think) about international law, briefly explaining how it evolved and presenting some of the authors that contributed to its theoretical consideration. The paper contends that feminism is a method in international law, having equal dignity as other methods that have developed over the centuries in international legal scholarship. It will briefly describe the different waves of international legal feminism and the work of two authors who in the 20s of the 20th century contributed to the development of international law of that time. It will further discuss the “sectoriality” of international legal feminism, focusing on some examples, including private international law. The legal reasoning will move forward to embrace new post-human, queer and ecological approaches. The paper argues in favour of ecofeminism as a method for thinking about international law. This philosophical thought unhinges intra- and inter-species power relations and lies at the origin of a deconstruction and a construction of well consolidated international legal categories. The paper will eventually provide an example of application of this method: the experience of feminist rewritings.