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Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / edited by Robin West (Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law School), and Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, US).
West, Robin, 1954- editor.; Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 1945- editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2019
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Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / edited by Robin West (Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law School), and Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, US).
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Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.
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1 online resource (544 pages).
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The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories. Featuring contributions from a diverse team of prominent scholars, this Research Handbook illuminates the ways in which feminist scholarship has enriched understandings of law's sometimes subordinating structures and the ways in which law can be interpreted or changed so as to promote the equality, liberty, wellbeing, and interests of women. The expert contributors offer a vast range of feminist perspectives on law, including liberal, radical, and post-modern feminism, and explore the implications of these theoretical stances for understandings of the nature of law, legal change, and the relationship between law and politics. Chapters analyse the influence of feminist legal theories on doctrinal areas of law including US constitutional and civil rights law, international law, and various areas of private law. This insightful book will be of interest to law students, legal scholars, and scholars of political and moral philosophy seeking to understand the entire body of feminist legal scholarship from the early 1970s to the present, as well as its variants, and relationships among different theoretical perspectives.
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Research handbooks in legal theory series.
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West, Robin, 1954- editor.
Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 1945- editor.
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Contents: Preface
Introduction to the research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / Robin West
Part I: Feminism and legal theory: varieties of feminist legal theory
1. In defense of liberal feminism / Sylvia A. Law
2. Catharine A. MacKinnon and Equality theory / Chao-ju Chen
3. Relational feminism and law / Robin West
4. The limits of equality: vulnerability and inevitable inequality / Martha Albertson Fineman
5. Socialist feminist legal theory: a plea / Cynthia Grant Bowman
6. Critical race feminism / Dorothy E. Roberts
7. Postmodern feminist legal theory / Laura A. Rosenbury
8. Feminism, sexuality and the law / Nan D. Hunter
Part II: Feminist legal theory and criminal law
9. Sexual agency and the unfinished work of rape law reform / Deborah Tuerkheimer
10. Sexual violence and the law in India / Nivedita Menon
11. Violence against women and liberal sexism / Victoria Nourse
12. 'Some gentle violence': marital rape immunity as contradiction in criminal law / Ngaire Naffine
Part III: Feminist legal theory and reproductive rights
13. Reproductive rights and justice: a multiple feminist theories account / Lisa C. Ikemoto
14. Against Roe exceptionalism: degendering abortion / Noya Rimalt
Part IV: Feminist legal theory, sex discrimination and sexual harassment
15. Sexual harassment law: an evolution in theory, scope and impact / Kimberly A. Yuracko
16. A dignitarian feminist jurisprudence with applications to rape, sexual harassment and honor codes / Orit Kamir
17. Sex equality, gender injury, Title IX And women's education / Katharine K. Baker
Part V: Feminist legal theory and constitutional law
18. The gendered jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment / Julie A. Nice
19. Beyond 'free speech for the white man': feminism and the First Amendment / Mary Anne Franks
Part VI: Feminist legal theory and private law
20. Feminist legal theory and tort law / Martha Chamallas
21. Feminism and contract law / Hila Keren
22. How feminism remade American Family law (and How it did not) / Susan Frelich Appleton
23. Feminism and family leave / Julie C. Suk
Part VII: Feminist legal theory and international law
24. International law and feminism / Adrien K. Wing
25. The State's Due diligence obligation / Irem Caglar and Berna Akcali Gur
Index.

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