Feminist Legal Theory: Readings In Law And Gender

ISBN-13: 9780813312484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 460 str.

Katharine T. Bartlett; Rosanne Kennedy

Opis

Our understanding of the law and its potential for reforming social and political norms was dramatically reshaped in the 1980s by the intellectual movement known as feminist legal theory. What makes this new theory so important is the far-reaching challenge it poses to the assumptions embedded in traditional legal doctrine and method as well as the light it sheds on how these assumptions so consistently undercut efforts toward fundamental gender change. Feminist legal theory also suggests how feminist practice might move toward strategies capable of fostering more effective reform.In a carefully balanced and thoughtfully edited collection of classic and new, cutting-edge papers, Katharine Bartlett and Rosanne Kennedy present some of the most provocative and diverse work in this exciting field. The selections reveal the influences of feminist work in philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and literary criticism, among other fields. These disciplines have enriched legal theory and provided feminist scholars with more and sharper tools, and the results, as evidenced in this volume, are impressive and encouraging. They are also sobering, in that they force the realization that there is much theoretical and practical work yet to be done, under constraints we are only beginning to fully comprehend.For students of the law, for anyone interested in women's issues, for experienced scholars, and for newcomers, Feminist Legal Theory is not just essential reading but an enduring reference work.

Spis treści

Credits -- Introduction -- Sexual Difference and Equality Theory -- The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism [1982] -- Reconstructing Sexual Equality [1987] -- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989] -- Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination [1984] -- Deconstructing Gender [1989] -- Telling Stories About Women and Work: Judicial Interpretations of Sex Segregation in the Workplace in Title VII Cases Raising the Lack of Interest Argument [1990] -- Questioning the Legal Subject -- On Being the Object of Property [1988] -- Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence [1983] -- Jurisprudence and Gender [1988] -- Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory [1990] -- Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories [1990] -- Feminism and Critical Theory -- Deconstructing Contract Doctrine [1985] -- Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis [1984] -- The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement [1986] -- Feminist Critical Theories [1990] -- Turning Feminist Method Inward -- Feminist Reason: Getting It and Losing It [1988] -- Feminist Legal Methods [1990] -- Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G. [1990] -- About the Book and Editors

O autorze

Katherine Barlett, Rosanne Kennedy