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Legal feminism : activism, lawyering, and legal theory / Ann Scales.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scales, Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminist jurisprudence.
- Sex and law.
- Feminist jurisprudence--United States.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the late 1970's, feminist scholars and activists joined together to build a movement aimed at bringing feminist theory and experiences to the practice and teaching of American law. Since then, the feminist jurisprudence movement has taken root, with courts and legislatures addressing matters of sex and gender inequality, and law schools employing feminist and post-feminist theory in the classroom. In this important book, Ann Scales, a founding contributor to the movement, reflects on the past, present, and future of feminist jurisprudence. Legal Feminism situates the feminist jurisprudence m
- Contents:
- The rule of law
- Certainty and doubt
- Intractable questions
- The limits of liberalism
- Feminist legal theory
- Feminist legal method
- False consciousness
- The future of legal feminism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814786888
- 081478688X
- 9780814739877
- 0814739873
- 9781429484978
- 1429484977
- OCLC:
- 779828118
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