Transcending the boundaries of law : generations of feminism and legal theory / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fineman, Martha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

xv, 414 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground breaking collection that will be central to future developments in feminists and related critical theorists engage with what pages three generations of feminists themes including equality, embodiment, identity, intimacy and law and politics. Almost two-decades ago Routledge published the very first anthology in feminist legal theory. At the Boundaries of Law (M.A Fineman and N. Thomadsen, eds. 1991), which marked an important conceptual move away from the study of women in law prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s. The scholar in At the Boundaries applied feminist methods and theories in examining law and legal institutions thus explaining upon work in the Law and Society tradition. This new anthology brings together some of the original contributors to that volume with scholars subsequent generations of critical gender theorists. It provides a retrospective on the past 25 years of scholarly engagement with issues relating to gender and law, as well as suggesting directions for future inquiry including the tantalizing as its primary focus to consider the should move beyond gender implications of the universally shared and constant vulnerability inherent in the human condition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Le feminisme and professionalism in law : reflections on the history of women lawyers / Mary Jane Mossman

An inconsistent affair : feminism and the legal academy / Margaret Thornton

Have pantsuit, will travel / Patricia J. Williams

Grappling with equality : one feminist journey / Martha Albertson Fineman

What's so hard about sex equality? : nature, culture, and social engineering / Linda C. McClain

No male or female / Mary Anne Case

The new faces of feminism : feminism in action and organic feminists in a post-feminist era / Michele Alexandre

Feminist legal theory as embodied justice / Isabel Karpin and Roxanne Mykitiuk

Privatization and punishment in the new age of reprogenetics / Dorothy E. Roberts

A tale of two bodies : the male body and feminist legal theory / Michael Thomson

The vulnerable subject : anchoring equality in the human condition / Martha Albertson Fineman

Resistance in the afterlife of identity / Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Gender equality, citizenship status, and the politics of belonging / Siobhán Mullally

When and where they enter / Robin West

New frontiers in family law / Laura T. Kessler

Family law, feminist legal theory, and the problem of racial hierarchy / Twila L. Perry

Living alone : new demographic research / Adam P. Romero

Learning the lessons : what feminist legal theory teaches international human rights law and practice / Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Prosecuting sexual violence in the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia / Fiona de Londras

Theorizing the more responsive state : transcending the (national) boundaries of law / Laura Spitz

Gender scripting and deliberative democracy / Holning Lau

The accidental feminist : a story of transformation, constitutional and otherwise / Victoria F. Nourse

Defending and developing critical feminist theory as law leans rightward / Martha T. McCluskey

Le feminisme and professionalism in law : reflections on the history of women lawyers / Mary Jane Mossman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415481380

0415481384

9780415481403

0415481406

OCLC:

473483583