Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robin West, Cynthia Grant Bowman.
• Editors: West, Robin; Bowman, Cynthia Grant
• Contents: Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence; PART I FEMINISM AND LEGALTHEORY: VARIETIES OF FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY; 1. In defense of liberal feminism; 2. Catharine A. MacKinnon and equality theory; 3. Relational feminism and law; 4. The limits of equality: vulnerability and inevitable inequality; 5. Socialist feminist legal theory: a plea; 6. Critical race feminism; 7. Postmodern feminist legal theory; 8. Feminism, sexuality and the law; PART II FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND CRIMINAL LAW 9. Sexual agency and the unfinished work of rape law reform10. Sexual violence and the law in India; 11. Violence against women and liberal sexism; 12. 'Some gentle violence': marital rape immunity as contradiction in criminal law; PART III FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; 13. Reproductive rights and justice: a multiple feminist theories account; 14. Against Roe exceptionalism: degendering abortion; PART IV FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY, SEX DISCRIMINATION AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT; 15. Sexual harassment law: an evolution in theory, scope and impact 16. A dignitarian feminist jurisprudence with applications to rape, sexual harassment and honor codes17. Sex equality, gender injury, Title IX and women's education; PART V FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; 18. The gendered jurisprudence of the Fourteenth Amendment; 19. Beyond 'Free Speech for the White Man': feminism and the First Amendment; PART VI FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND PRIVATE LAW; 20. Feminist legal theory and tort law; 21. Feminism and contract law; 22. How feminism remade American family law (and how it did not); 23. Feminism and family leave PART VII FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW24. International law and feminism; 25. The state's due diligence obligation; Index
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 523 pages)
• Subjects: 340.082; Feminist jurisprudence; LAW / Essays; LAW / General Practice; LAW / Jurisprudence; LAW / Paralegals & Paralegalism; LAW / Practical Guides; LAW / Reference; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786439697; 1786439697
• Related ISBNs: 9781786439680
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2019).
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