Feministische Erfolge im transnationalen Recht

Abstract

Even in the 1990ies international law was still characterized by a “culture of impunity” concerning sexualized and gender-related violence. Only when transnational women’s movements became the direct agents of this process of transnationalization of law was it possible to scandalize and gradually transform these power relations. Against the background of a feminist approach to legal theory this change is to be reflected in an exemplary documentation analysing the judicial implications in one of the most outstanding, though as yet unacknowledged and unremedied injustices of the Second World War, committed against women in the Japanese system of sexual slavery.