Feminism Postfeminism And Legal Theory

Author : Dorota Gozdecka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351040405
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Postfeminism and Legal Theory written by Dorota Gozdecka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is much debate about postfeminism, what it is, and its role in feminist politics. Whilst postfeminism has become increasingly influential in the study of literature, popular culture, and philosophy, it has so far received comparatively little attention in law. This book aims to remedy this situation. The book brings together feminist legal scholars working in different contexts to examine the idea of postfeminism and assess its contemporary relevance. It explores a range of questions including the following: Does postfeminism describe an age that follows modernism, an age where identity politics has realised its goals and feminism is no longer needed? Or does postfeminism describe the feminism of a postmodernist age where identity can mean anything at all? Or, differently again, does the term capture a ‘new feminism’ that discredits feminism and attempts to reshape its political consciousness? And what might the answers to these questions mean for law and legal theory, and a feminist politics of law reform?

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136949038
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcending the Boundaries of Law written by Martha Albertson Fineman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending the Boundaries of Law brings together three generations of the most respected feminist legal theorists in order to assess the past, the present and the future of feminist legal thought in the Law and Society tradition. It is a ground-breaking collection that will be central to the further development of feminism and related critical theories.

Author : Katherine Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980116
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal Theory written by Katherine Bartlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers powerful analyses of the relationship between law and gender and new understandings of the limits of, and opportunities for, legal reform drawn from the experiences of women and from critical perspectives developed within other disciplines.

Author : Nancy Levit
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479840408
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition) written by Nancy Levit and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding primer, Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and discuss an array of substantive legal topics, pulling in recent court decisions, new laws, and important shifts in culture and technology. The book centers on feminist legal theories, including equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, dominance theory, critical race feminism, lesbian feminism, postmodern feminism, and ecofeminism. Readers will find new material on women in politics, gender and globalization, and the promise and danger of expanding social media. Updated statistics and empirical analysis appear throughout. The authors, prominent experts in the field, also address feminist legal methods, such as consciousness-raising and storytelling. The primer offers an accessible and pragmatic approach to feminist legal theory. It demonstrates the ways feminist legal theory operates in real-life contexts, including domestic violence, reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, education, sports, pornography, and global issues of gender. The authors highlight a sweeping range of cutting-edge topics at the intersection of law and gender, such as single-sex schools, abortion, same-sex marriage, rape on college campuses, and international trafficking in women and girls. At its core, Feminist Legal Theory shows the importance of the roles of law and feminist legal theory in shaping contemporary gender issues.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136204784
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory) written by Martha Albertson Fineman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theory, focusing instead on the concrete and material implications of the legal injustices endured by women. These essays emphasise the complex diversity of female experience, collectively arguing for legal theory and practice that both recognises and accommodates the concept of ‘difference’ – in gender, class, race and sexual orientation. At the Boundaries of Law also raises provocative questions about the methodology and future of feminist legal theory itself. In its rich variety of issues and approaches, this volume will command the interest not only of legal theorists, but of those interested in women’s studies, philosophy, politics, sociology and history. It is sure to set the future agenda for scholars, policymakers and anyone concerned with the role of law in society.

Author : Katherine Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367315733
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal Theory written by Katherine Bartlett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Feminist Legal Theory" is a carefully balanced and thoughtfully edited collection of classic and new papers from the exciting field of feminist legal thought. What makes current feminist legal theory so important is the far-reaching challenge it poses to the assumptions embedded in traditional legal doctrine and method as well as the light it sheds on how these assumptions have so consistently undercut efforts toward fundamental gender change.The papers gathered here reveal the influences of feminist work in philosophy, psychoanalysis, political theory, and literary criticism, fields that have enriched legal theory and provided feminist scholars with more and sharper tools, and the results, as evidenced in this volume, are impressive and encouraging. They are also sobering, in that they force the realization that there is much theoretical and practical work yet to be done, under constraints we are only beginning to fully comprehend.

Author : Nancy Levit
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479882801
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal Theory (Second Edition) written by Nancy Levit and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the completely updated second edition of this outstanding primer, Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and discuss an array of substantive legal topics, pulling in recent court decisions, new laws, and important shifts in culture and technology. The book centers on feminist legal theories, including equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, dominance theory, critical race feminism, lesbian feminism, postmodern feminism, and ecofeminism. Readers will find new material on women in politics, gender and globalization, and the promise and danger of expanding social media. Updated statistics and empirical analysis appear throughout. At its core, Feminist Legal Theory shows the importance of the roles of law and feminist legal theory in shaping contemporary gender issues"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137329
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Masculinities written by Martha Albertson Fineman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory. This volume investigates the ways in which emerging masculinities theory in law could inform feminist legal theory in particular and law in general. As many of the chapters in this collection illustrate, law is constantly in a dynamic interaction with masculinities: it has both influenced existing masculinities and has been influenced by those masculinities. The contributions focus feminist and critical theoretical attention on masculinities and consider the implications of masculinities theory for law and legal theory. The book sets out the theoretical trajectory of masculinities studies as a field and its application in law and uses insights from a masculinities approach to study socio-political construction of gender identities in specific settings. It also explores how understanding historical construction of gender identities can inform more effective public policy and activism. Written by leading experts in the area, the book poses important questions about the development of the relationship between feminisms and masculinities theory and will be essential reading for those working in law and gender and related areas.

Author : D. Kelly Weisberg
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439907672
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations written by D. Kelly Weisberg and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vanessa E. Munro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317043413
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory written by Vanessa E. Munro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.