Feminist legal theory

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Feminist legal theory

Statement of responsibility

edited by Austin Sarat, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College ; special issue editors, Maxine Eichner, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Clare Huntington, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY, USA

Title variation

Special issue

Title variation remainder

feminist legal theory

Contributor

• Eichner, Maxine
• Huntington, Clare
• Sarat, Austin

Subject

• Feminist jurisprudence
• Feminist jurisprudence

Language

eng

Summary

Publisher's description: Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more complex and nuanced conception of power. Recent scholarship recognizes the complexities of power in contemporary society, the ways in which these complexities entrench sex inequality, and the role that law can play in reducing inequality and increasing agency. The feminist legal theorists in this volume are emblematic of this effort. They carefully examine the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. In doing so they identify social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Finally, they give sophisticated thought to the possibilities for legal interventions in light of these more complex notions of power

Member of

• Studies in law, politics, and society, v. 69

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

346.0134

LC call number

K349

LC item number

.F457 2016

Series statement

Studies in law, politics, and society,

Series volume

volume 69