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1 online resource |
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Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 1 |
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Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
"AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW Feminism and Legal Theory"; "Copyright"; "AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW FEMINISM AND LEGAL THEORY"; "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." |
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"III. Recognizing Pleasures and Pains""7. The Difference in Women�s Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory"; "8. 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" |
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"13. Homework and Women�s Rights: The Case of the Vermont Knitters, 1980-1985""14. Abandoned Women"; "15. 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" |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Congresses
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Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses
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Feminism -- Congresses
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Social conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fineman, Martha.
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Thomadsen, Nancy Sweet, 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781136204784 |
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1136204784 |
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