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Feminist legal theory [electronic resource] / 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

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Special issue : feminist legal theory
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United Kingdom ; North America ; Japan ; India ; Malaysia ; China : Emerald, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
x, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Sarat, Austin, Eichner, Maxine, and Huntington, Clare
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Contents
Going wild : law and literature and sex / Susan Frelich Appleton and Susan Ekberg Stiritz -- Women's sexual agency and the law of rape in the 21st century / Kathrine K. Baker and Michelle Oberman -- Care and danger : feminism and therapy culture / Angela P. Harris -- Market-cautious feminism / Maxine Eichner -- Unequal terms : gender, power, and the recreation of heirarchy / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn -- Schrödinger's child : non-identity and probabilities in reproductive decision-making / Jennifer S. Hendriks.
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.
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9781785607837
1785607839
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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