The Ashgate research companion to feminist legal theory / edited by Margaret Davies and Vanessa E. Munro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Margaret (Law teacher), editor.

Munro, Vanessa, editor.

Series:

Ashgate research companion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist jurisprudence.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Physical Description:

xi, 423 pages ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Research companion to feminist legal theory

Feminist legal theory

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

Contents:

Contesting the dominant paradigm : feminist critiques of liberal legalism / Rosemary Hunter

Feminism, law and materialism : reclaiming the 'tainted' realm / Joanne Conaghan

Freedom, power, and agency in feminist legal theory / Nancy J. Hirschmann

Law's truths and the truth about law : interdisciplinary refractions / Margaret Davies

Equality and difference : fertile tensions or fatal contradictions for advancing the interests of disadvantaged women? / Elsje Bonthuys

'What a long, strange trip it's been' : feminist and queer travel with sex, gender and sexuality / Sharon Cowan

Theorizing race, theorizing racism : new directions in interdisciplinary scholarship / Jennifer C. Nash

Feminists rethink multiculturalism : resisting essentialism and cross-cultural hypocrisy / Sarah Song

In the name of God? : religion and feminist legal theory / Samia Bano

Gender and terrain : feminists theorize citizenship / Margot Young

International human rights law : towards rethinking sex/gender dualism / Diane Otto

A new frontline for feminism and international humanitarian law / Judith Gardam

Violence against women, 'victimhood' and the (neo)liberal state / Vanessa E. Munro

The body, bodies, embodiment : feminist legal engagement with health / Marie Fox and Thérèse Murphy

Motherhood and law : constructing and challenging normativity / Susan B. Boyd

Marriage and civil partnership : law's role, feminism's response / Rosemary Auchmuty

Gendered power over taxes and budgets / Åsa Gunnarsson

From women and labour law to putting gender and law to work / Judy Fudge

Gender, justice and law in a global market / Ann Stewart

Women, migration and the constitutional underpinning of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt

Ecofeminism and the environment : international law and climate change / Karen Morrow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409418597

1409418596

OCLC:

828682683