At the boundaries of law : feminism and legal theory / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Nancy Sweet Thomadsen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fineman, Martha, editor.

Thomadsen, Nancy Sweet, 1950- editor.

Conference Name:

Feminism and Legal Theory Conference (1985-1989 : University of Wisconsin)

Series:

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 1.

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women's lives. Together the essays examine the fertile - and radically revisionary - links between feminism and legal theory.But At the Boundaries of Law rejects the abstract 'grand theorizing' of traditional feminist legal

Contents:

AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW Feminism and Legal Theory; Copyright; AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW FEMINISM AND LEGALTHEORY; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; I. Perspectives from the Personal; 1. Reasonable Women and the Law; 2. On Being the Object of Property; 3. Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes:Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G; II. The Construction of Body in Law; 4. The Body in Legal Theory; 5. Intimacy and Responsibility: What Lesbians Do; 6. Fallen Angels: The Representation of Violence Against Women in Legal Culture; III. Recognizing Pleasures and Pains

7. The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory8. Feminism, Sexuality and Authenticity; 9. The Problem of Privatized Injuries: Feminist Strategies for Litigation; IV. Recasting Women's History; 10. The Unbroken Circle: A Historical Study of Black Single Mothers and Their Families; 11. Religion and Rights Consciousness in the Antebellum Woman's Rights Movement; 12. Social Feminism and Legal Discourse, 1908-1923; V. Perspectives on Marriage and Family; 13. Homework and Women's Rights: The Case of the Vermont Knitters, 1980-1985

14. Abandoned Women15. Societal Factors Affecting the Creation of Legal Rules for Distribution of Property at Divorce; VI. Feminist Strategies Within Legal Institutions; 16. Feminism and Legal Method: The Difference It Makes; 17. The Dialectics of Rights and Politics:Perspectives From the Women's Movement; 18. Strategizing In Equality; References; Books and Articles; Cases; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

First published in 1991 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781136204777

1136204776

9780203094112

0203094115

9781283861274

1283861275

9781136204784

1136204784

OCLC:

823730675