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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 | |