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Feminist Legal Theory Readings in Law and Gender

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ISBN-10: 0813312485

ISBN-13: 9780813312484

Edition: 1991 (Revised)

Authors: Katherine Bartlett, Rosanne Kennedy

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"Feminist Legal Theory" is a carefully balanced and thoughtfully edited collection of classic and new papers from the exciting field of feminist legal thought. What makes current feminist legal 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 have so consistently undercut efforts toward fundamental gender change.The papers gathered here reveal the influences of feminist work in philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and literary criticism, fields that have enriched legal theory and provided feminist scholars with more and sharper tools, and the…    
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Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/4/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Credits
Introduction
Notes
Sexual Difference and Equality Theory
The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism [1982]
Reconstructing Sexual Equality [1987]
Notes
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989]
Notes
Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination [1984
Notes
Deconstructing Gender [1989]
Notes
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]
Notes
Further Reading for Part One
Questioning the Legal Subject
On Being the Object of Property [1988]
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence [1983]
Notes
Jurisprudence and Gender [1988]
Notes
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory [1990]
Notes
Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories [1990]
Notes
Further Reading for Part Two
Feminism and Critical Theory
Deconstructing Contract Doctrine [1985]
Notes
Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis [1984]
Notes
The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Womens' Movement [1986]
Notes
Feminist Critical Theories [1990]
Further Reading for Part Three
Turning Feminist Method Inward
Feminist Reason: Getting It and Losing It [1988]
Feminist Legal Methods [1990]
Notes
Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes: Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G. [1990]
Notes
Further Reading for Part Four
About the Book and Editors
About the Contributors
Index