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Feminist judgments : rewritten opinions of the United States Supreme Court / [edited by] Kathryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger, Bridget J. Crawford.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions.
- Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Cases.
- Women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Discrimination--Law and legislation.
- Equality before the law.
- Feminist jurisprudence.
- United States.
- Feminist jurisprudence--United States--Cases.
- Equality before the law--United States--Cases.
- Discrimination--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.
- Discrimination.
- Feminism--United States--History--20th century.
- Feminism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlvii, 566 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant US Supreme Court cases on gender from the 1800s to the present day. The twenty-five opinions in this volume demonstrate that judges with feminist viewpoints could have changed the course of the law. The rewritten decisions reveal that previously accepted judicial outcomes were not necessary or inevitable and demonstrate that feminist reasoning increases the judicial capacity for justice. Feminist Judgments opens a path for a long overdue discussion of the real impact of judicial diversity on the law as well as the influence of perspective on judging.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781316411254
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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