Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780415497602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 232 str.

Maria Drakopoulou

Opis

Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal doctrine, legal concepts and ideas, or critical assessments of the effects that specific areas of law have upon the lives of women. This collection, however, although rooted in feminist legal scholarship, takes the established canon of legal texts as the object of inquiry. Taking as their common starting point the fact that legal texts are plural and open to multiple readings, all the contributions in this collection offer subversive, but supplementary, interpretations of the legal canon. In this respect, however, they do not merely sustain an array of feminist styles and theories of reading. Revealing, and re-appropriating, the plural space of legal interpretation, they seek to open a hitherto unexplored arena for a feminist politics of law.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Maria Drakopoulou 2. A Voice Beyond The Law: Reading Cavarero Reading Plato Patrick Hanafin 3. The Sex Of Reason: Aquinas And The Misogynist Foundations Of Natural Law Margaret Denike 4. The Accidental Feminist: On The Pythagorean Roots Of John Selden’s Jani Anglorum Peter Goodrich  5. Hobbes, Unhealthy Desires And Freedom: A Feminist Reading Janice Richardson  6. Samuel Pufendorf, Feminism And The Question Of ‘Women And Law’ Maria Drakopoulou  7. Blackstone, Bentham And The Romance Of Law Susan Chaplin  8. Hegel On Law, Women, And Contract Alison Stone  9. Resonance: Why Feminists Do/Ought Not Read Kelsen Panu Minkkinen  10. Legal Form, Commodities And Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis Ruth Fletcher  11. Reading Arendt ‘Reading’ Schmitt: Reading Nomos Otherwise? Julia H. Chryssostalis  12. Ambiguities: Law, Morality, And Legal Subjectivity In H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept Of Law Emma Cunliffe

O autorze

Maria Drakopoulou is Reader in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.