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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Thinking Like a Feminist | |
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Five Opening Moves | |
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Women's Experience | |
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Implicit Male Bias | |
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Double Binds and Dilemmas of Difference | |
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Reproducing Patterns of Male Domination | |
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Unpacking Women's Choices | |
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Summary | |
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Three Stages of Feminist Legal Theory | |
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The Equality Stage (1970s) | |
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The Elimination of Sex-Based Classifications | |
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Equal Access to Jobs and Education | |
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Equality in the Family | |
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Privacy and the Legal Regulation of Sexual Conduct | |
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Feminist Scholarship During the Equality Stage | |
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The Impact of Liberal Feminism on Law | |
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The Difference Stage (1980s) | |
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The Debate Over Equal Versus Special Treatment | |
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The Emergence of Dominance Feminism | |
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Cultural Feminism Meets the Law | |
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Confronting the Dangers of Cultural Feminism | |
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Beyond Formal Equity: The Special Case of Title IX | |
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Feminism and Critical Legal Studies | |
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Combining Theory and Practice: Gender Bias in the Courts | |
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The Diversity Stage (1990s and Beyond) | |
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Critiques of Gender Essentialism | |
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Feminist Theories of Multiple Oppression and Multiple Perspectives | |
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Postmodern Feminist Theories and Personal Identity | |
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Breaking the False Dichotomy Between Agency and Victimization | |
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Investigating White Privilege | |
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The "Turn" to Performance | |
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Global Feminism: Women's Rights as Human Rights | |
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Backlash: Proliferation of Critics of Feminist Legal Theory | |
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Evolutionary Biology | |
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Victim Feminism | |
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The New Right-Wing Attack | |
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Allied Intellectual Movements | |
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Critical Race Theory | |
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The Theme of Cultural Domination | |
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Unconscious Racism and the Critique of Color-Blindness | |
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Perspectivity and Hate Speech | |
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Race as a Social Construction | |
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Gay and Lesbian Studies | |
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Connecting Heterosexism to Sexism | |
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Analyzing the Constructs of Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation | |
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Gay Narratives and Pre-Understandings | |
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Construction of Group and Personal Identity | |
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Queer Theory and the Law | |
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Applied Feminist Legal Scholarship--Economic Subordination of Women | |
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The Components of Women's Economic Subordination | |
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Tokenism, Gender Stereotyping, and Male-Dominated Work | |
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Devaluation, Comparable Worth, and Women's Work | |
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Household Labor and the Work/Family Conflict | |
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Reinforcing Economic Subordination Through Tort Law | |
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Implicit Gender Bias in the Tax Code | |
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Applied Feminist Scholarship--Sexual Subordination of Women | |
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Prototypes of Rape | |
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Strangers and Racism | |
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Causal Attribution, Victim Responsibility, and Rape Justification | |
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Commodification, Devaluation, and New Feminist Discourses | |
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Sexual Harassment | |
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A Feminist Cause of Action | |
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Feminist Doctrinal Critiques | |
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Intersectionality: The Legacy of the Hill/Thomas Hearings | |
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Feminist Responses to Same-Sex Harassment | |
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Domestic Violence | |
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Feminist Terms and Descriptions | |
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Prototypes of the Battered Woman: Syndromes and Self-Defense | |
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The Rhetoric of Privacy and Relationships: Historical Insights | |
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Prostitution | |
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Two Competing Visions of Prostitution | |
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The Analogy to Work | |
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Legal Prohibitions on Same-Sex Marriage | |
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Legal Climate for Same-Sex Marriage | |
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Feminist Responses to Same-Sex Marriage | |
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Applied Feminist Scholarship--Motherhood and Reproduction | |
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Motherhood as an Ideological Construct | |
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Constructing Deviancy: Race, Patriarchy, and Single Motherhood | |
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Exploring the Relationship between "Dependency" and "Privilege" | |
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Forced Motherhood: Gender Equality and Abortion Rights | |
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Limitations on the Right to Choose Motherhood | |
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Conclusion | |
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Index | |