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The female body and the law / Zillah R. Eisenstein.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisenstein, Zillah R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Law and legislation--United States.
- Human body.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- Sex discrimination against women--Law and legislation--United States.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Women.
- Sex differences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- University of California Press 2024
- Summary:
- The Female Body and the Law provides an original and incisive reexamination of the dynamics of sexual equality. Eisenstein contends that sexual inequality is fostered both by the law and by the insistence that men and women are biologically different. Through a fascinating discussion of a series of issues including affirmative action, AIDS, Baby M, pornography, and abortion, Eisenstein shows how the law operates as a political language that establishes and curtails choices and actions. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Politics and/or Deconstruction: Thoughts on Method
- 2. The Engendered Discourse(s) of Liberal Law(s)
- 3. Sex "Difference" and the Engendered Body
- 4. Reconstituting the Phallus I: Reaganism and the Politics of Inequality
- 5. Reconstituting the Phallus II: Reaganism and the Courts, Pornography, Affirmative Action, and Abortion
- 6. Beyond the Phallus and the Mother's Body
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-37764-8
- OCLC:
- 1436830346
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