This book argues that the absence of women in the development of international law has produced a narrow and inadequate jurisprudence that has legitimated the unequal position of women worldwide rather than confronted it.

Hilary Charlesworth is a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School

Christine Chinkin is Emerita Professor of International Law, Professorial Research Fellow and Founding Director of the Centre of Women Peace & Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science