Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence

ISBN-13: 9781859412374 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 364 str.

Hilaire Barnett;Barnett

Opis

Covering the issues in feminist jurisprudence, this book aims to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject despite the vast strides in the achievement of formal legal equality on the part of women. This book provides an analysis of this subject.

Spis treści

Part 1 The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Gender Inequalities and Law; Chapter 3 Patriarchy; Part 2 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique; Chapter 4 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: I Ancient Greek Political Thought and Natural Law Theory; Chapter 5 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: II Positive Law and Social Contract Theory; Part 3 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought; Chapter 6 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I Liberalism and Marxism; Chapter 7 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: II Difference Feminism/Cultural Feminism; Chapter 8 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: III Radical Feminism; Chapter 9 Postmodernism and Critical Legal Studies; Part 4 Key Issues in Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter 10 Women and Medicine; Chapter 11 Women, violence and the Legal System; Chapter 12 Pornography and Prostitution;

O autorze

Hilaire Barnett Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London