Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / edited by Robin West, Cynthia Grant Bowman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Bowman, Cynthia Grant, editor.

West, Robin, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in legal theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist jurisprudence--United States.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories. Featuring contributions from a diverse team of prominent scholars, this Research Handbook illuminates the ways in which feminist scholarship has enriched understandings of law's sometimes subordinating structures and the ways in which law can be interpreted or changed so as to promote the equality, liberty, wellbeing, and interests of women. The expert contributors offer a vast range of feminist perspectives on law, including liberal, radical, and post-modern feminism, and explore the implications of these theoretical stances for understandings of the nature of law, legal change, and the relationship between law and politics. Chapters analyse the influence of feminist legal theories on doctrinal areas of law including US constitutional and civil rights law, international law, and various areas of private law. This insightful book will be of interest to law students, legal scholars, and scholars of political and moral philosophy seeking to understand the entire body of feminist legal scholarship from the early 1970s to the present, as well as its variants, and relationships among different theoretical perspectives.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Introduction to the research handbook on feminist jurisprudence / Robin West

Part I: Feminism and legal theory: varieties of feminist legal theory

1. In defense of liberal feminism / Sylvia A. Law

2. Catharine A. MacKinnon and Equality theory / Chao-ju Chen

3. Relational feminism and law / Robin West

4. The limits of equality: vulnerability and inevitable inequality / Martha Albertson Fineman

5. Socialist feminist legal theory: a plea / Cynthia Grant Bowman

6. Critical race feminism / Dorothy E. Roberts

7. Postmodern feminist legal theory / Laura A. Rosenbury

8. Feminism, sexuality and the law / Nan D. Hunter

Part II: Feminist legal theory and criminal law

9. Sexual agency and the unfinished work of rape law reform / Deborah Tuerkheimer

10. Sexual violence and the law in India / Nivedita Menon

11. Violence against women and liberal sexism / Victoria Nourse

12. 'Some gentle violence': marital rape immunity as contradiction in criminal law / Ngaire Naffine

Part III: Feminist legal theory and reproductive rights

13. Reproductive rights and justice: a multiple feminist theories account / Lisa C. Ikemoto

14. Against Roe exceptionalism: degendering abortion / Noya Rimalt

Part IV: Feminist legal theory, sex discrimination and sexual harassment

15. Sexual harassment law: an evolution in theory, scope and impact / Kimberly A. Yuracko

16. A dignitarian feminist jurisprudence with applications to rape, sexual harassment and honor codes / Orit Kamir

17. Sex equality, gender injury, Title IX And women's education / Katharine K. Baker

Part V: Feminist legal theory and constitutional law

18. The gendered jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment / Julie A. Nice

19. Beyond 'free speech for the white man': feminism and the First Amendment / Mary Anne Franks

Part VI: Feminist legal theory and private law

20. Feminist legal theory and tort law / Martha Chamallas

21. Feminism and contract law / Hila Keren

22. How feminism remade American Family law (and How it did not) / Susan Frelich Appleton

23. Feminism and family leave / Julie C. Suk

Part VII: Feminist legal theory and international law

24. International law and feminism / Adrien K. Wing

25. The State's Due diligence obligation / Irem Caglar and Berna Akcali Gur

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78643-969-7