Feminist jurisprudence

Summary

Titles

• Full Title: Feminist jurisprudence/ edited by Patricia Smith.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Equality and difference : the case of pregnancy / Herma Hill Kay -- Will equality require more than assimilation, accommodation, or separation from the existing social structure? / Nadine Taub and Wendy W. Williams -- The family and the market : a study of ideology and legal reform / Frances E. Olsen -- The emergence of feminist jurisprudence : an essay / Ann C. Scales -- Reconstructing sexual equality / Christine A. Littleton -- Sexual harassment : its first decade in court / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Rape / Susan Estrich -- The criminal justice system's responses to battering : understanding the problem, forging the solutions / Kathleen Waits -- Justice engendered / Martha Minow -- Legality and empathy / Lynne N. Henderson -- Black women and the Constitution : finding our place, asserting our rights / Judy Scales-Trent -- Reproductive freedom / Deborah L. Rhode.
• Reproductive laws, women of color, and low-income women / Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson -- Unraveling compromise / Frances Olsen -- Rethinking sex and the Constitution / Sylvia A. Law -- Market inalienability / Margaret Jane Radin -- Pornography and the tyranny of the majority / Elizabeth Wolgast -- Against the male flood : censorship, pornography, and equality / Andrea Dworkin -- Brief amici curiae of feminist anticensorship task force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut / Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law -- Jurisprudence and gender / Robin West -- Deconstructing gender / Joan C. Williams -- The pragmatist and the feminist / Margaret Jane Radin -- Sapphire bound! / Regina Austin -- Feminist critical theories / Deborah L. Rhode -- Toward feminist jurisprudence / Catherine A. MacKinnon.
• Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0. Uk

Identifiers

• Isbns: 0195073975; 9780195073973
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)25317439

Publication Statement

• Place: New York
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Date: 1993

Physical Description

• Extent: xii, 628 pages ;
• Dimensions: 24 cm

Table Of Contents

• Equality and difference : the case of pregnancy / Herma Hill Kay -- Will equality require more than assimilation, accommodation, or separation from the existing social structure? / Nadine Taub and Wendy W. Williams -- The family and the market : a study of ideology and legal reform / Frances E. Olsen -- The emergence of feminist jurisprudence : an essay / Ann C. Scales -- Reconstructing sexual equality / Christine A. Littleton -- Sexual harassment : its first decade in court / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Rape / Susan Estrich -- The criminal justice system's responses to battering : understanding the problem, forging the solutions / Kathleen Waits -- Justice engendered / Martha Minow -- Legality and empathy / Lynne N. Henderson -- Black women and the Constitution : finding our place, asserting our rights / Judy Scales-Trent -- Reproductive freedom / Deborah L. Rhode.
• Reproductive laws, women of color, and low-income women / Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson -- Unraveling compromise / Frances Olsen -- Rethinking sex and the Constitution / Sylvia A. Law -- Market inalienability / Margaret Jane Radin -- Pornography and the tyranny of the majority / Elizabeth Wolgast -- Against the male flood : censorship, pornography, and equality / Andrea Dworkin -- Brief amici curiae of feminist anticensorship task force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut / Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law -- Jurisprudence and gender / Robin West -- Deconstructing gender / Joan C. Williams -- The pragmatist and the feminist / Margaret Jane Radin -- Sapphire bound! / Regina Austin -- Feminist critical theories / Deborah L. Rhode -- Toward feminist jurisprudence / Catherine A. MacKinnon.

Summary

• Providing balanced coverage of abortion, sexual harassment, censorship and pornography, and other timely and controversial subjects, this anthology is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to feminist legal philosophy. It provides many stimulating insights into essential topics in jurisprudence, such as the nature and justification of law, judicial reasoning and the process of adjudication, the connection between law and equality, and freedom and justice.

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