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Transcending the boundaries of law : Generations of feminism and legal theory

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Publication details: London Routledge 2011Description: 414p xviISBN:
  • 9780415481403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.013400 FIN
Contents:
Table of contents Introduction, Martha Albertson Fineman Section One: From Women in the Law to Feminist Legal Theory 1. "Le Feminisme" and Professionalism in Law: Reflections on the History of Women Lawyers, Mary Jane Mossman 2. An Inconsistent Affair: Feminism and the Legal Academy, Margaret Thornton 3. Have Pantsuit, Will Travel, Patricia J. Williams 4. Grappling with Equality: One Feminist Journey, Martha Albertson Fineman Section Two: Engaging Equality 5. What's So Hard About Sex Equality?: Nature, Culture, and Social Engineering, Linda C. McClain 6. No Male or Female, Mary Anne Case 7. The New Faces of Feminism: Feminism in Action and Organic Feminists in a Post-Feminist Era, Michele Alexandre Section Three: Engaging Bodies 8. Feminist Legal Theory as Embodied Justice, Isabel Karpin and Roxanne Mykitiuk 9. Privatization and Punishment in the New Age of Reprogenetics, Dorothy E. Roberts 10. A Tale of Two Bodies: The Male Body and Feminist Legal Theory, Michael Thomson Section Four: Engaging Universals and Engaging Identities 11. The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition, Martha Albertson Fineman 12. Resistance in the Afterlife of Identity, Darren Lenard Hutchinson 13. Gender Equality, Citizenship Status, and the Politics of Belonging, Siobhan Mullally Section Five: Engaging Intimacy and Family 14. When and Where They Enter, Robin West 15. New Frontiers in Family Law, Laura T. Kessler 16. Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Problem of Racial Hierarchy, Twila L. Perry 17. Living Alone: New Demographic Research, Adam P. Romero Section Six: Engaging the State 18. Learning the Lessons: What Feminist Legal Theory Teaches International Human Rights Law and Practice, Fionnuala Ni Aolain 19. Prosecuting Sexual Violence in the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Fiona de Londras 20. Theorizing the More Responsive State: Transcending the (National) Boundaries of Law, Laura Spitz Section Seven: Engaging Politics 21. Gender Scripting and Deliberative Democracy, Holning Lau 22. The Accidental Feminist: A Story of Transformation, Constitutional and Otherwise, Victoria F. Nourse 23. Defending and Developing Critical Feminist Theory as Law Leans Rightward, Martha T. McCluskey
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Table of contents
Introduction, Martha Albertson Fineman
Section One: From Women in the Law to Feminist Legal Theory
1. "Le Feminisme" and Professionalism in Law: Reflections on the History of Women Lawyers, Mary Jane Mossman
2. An Inconsistent Affair: Feminism and the Legal Academy, Margaret Thornton
3. Have Pantsuit, Will Travel, Patricia J. Williams
4. Grappling with Equality: One Feminist Journey, Martha Albertson Fineman
Section Two: Engaging Equality
5. What's So Hard About Sex Equality?: Nature, Culture, and Social Engineering, Linda C. McClain
6. No Male or Female, Mary Anne Case
7. The New Faces of Feminism: Feminism in Action and Organic Feminists in a Post-Feminist Era, Michele Alexandre Section Three: Engaging Bodies
8. Feminist Legal Theory as Embodied Justice, Isabel Karpin and Roxanne Mykitiuk
9. Privatization and Punishment in the New Age of Reprogenetics, Dorothy E. Roberts
10. A Tale of Two Bodies: The Male Body and Feminist Legal Theory, Michael Thomson
Section Four: Engaging Universals and Engaging Identities
11. The Vulnerable Subject: Anchoring Equality in the Human Condition, Martha Albertson Fineman
12. Resistance in the Afterlife of Identity, Darren Lenard Hutchinson
13. Gender Equality, Citizenship Status, and the Politics of Belonging, Siobhan Mullally
Section Five: Engaging Intimacy and Family
14. When and Where They Enter, Robin West
15. New Frontiers in Family Law, Laura T. Kessler
16. Family Law, Feminist Legal Theory, and the Problem of Racial Hierarchy, Twila L. Perry
17. Living Alone: New Demographic Research, Adam P. Romero
Section Six: Engaging the State
18. Learning the Lessons: What Feminist Legal Theory Teaches International Human Rights Law and Practice, Fionnuala Ni Aolain
19. Prosecuting Sexual Violence in the Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, Fiona de Londras
20. Theorizing the More Responsive State: Transcending the (National) Boundaries of Law, Laura Spitz Section Seven: Engaging Politics
21. Gender Scripting and Deliberative Democracy, Holning Lau
22. The Accidental Feminist: A Story of Transformation, Constitutional and Otherwise, Victoria F. Nourse
23. Defending and Developing Critical Feminist Theory as Law Leans Rightward, Martha T. McCluskey

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