ABSTRACT
How can global justice for women be thinkable? It will be the argument of this paper that we have to think the unthinkability of global justice for women, if it is to be thinkable. Rather than base our call for global justice on a notion of advancement, rights or development, transnational feminisms need to think about how global justice fails to be secured by the very constitution of women as global actors, and to work with the very failure of global justice to be present, or be presented by, the law. In other words, it is only by working with what is not named by documents such as the Beijing Platform for Action 1995, which requires that we work on such documents in the first place, that attempts to ‘do justice’ to women within international civil society will allow us to open up the ‘possibility for justice’.
