Feminist legal theory / 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.

Other author Sarat, Austin.
Other author Eichner, Maxine.
Other author Huntington, Clare.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoUnited Kingdom ; North America ; Japan ; India ; Malaysia ; China : Emerald, 2016.
Descriptionx, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
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Variant title Special issue : feminist legal theory
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society, 1059-4337 ; volume 69
Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 69. ^A1047580
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.
Abstract 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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LCCN 2016296714
ISBN9781785607837
ISBN1785607839

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