Feminism And The Power Of Law
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Feminism and the Power of Law
Author | : Carol Smart |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2002-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134972838 |
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In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation.
Contesting Femicide
Author | : Adrian Howe,Daniela Alaattinoglu |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Feminist jurisprudence |
ISBN | : 1138478628 |
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Focusing on femicide, this book draws upon, whilst also providing a contemporary re-evaluation of, Carol Smart's innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989).
Feminism Unmodified
Author | : Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674298748 |
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"Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. She argues that viewing gender as a matter of sameness and difference--as virtually all existing theory and law have done--covers up the reality of gender, which is a system of social hierarchy, an imposed inequality of power"--Back cover.
Contesting Femicide
Author | : Adrian Howe,Daniela Alaattinoğlu |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781351068024 |
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Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in profoundly sexed ways is unequivocal. Accordingly, femicide cases have become critically important sites for feminist engagement and intervention across numerous jurisdictions. Exploring an area of criminal law that was not one of Smart’s own focal concerns, this book both honours and extends Smart’s work by approaching femicide as a site of engagement and counter-discourse that calls into question hegemonic representations of gendered relationships. Femicide cases thus provide a way to continue the endlessly valuable discursive work Smart advocated and practised in other fields of law: both in articulating alternative accounts of gendered relationships and in challenging law’s power to disqualify women’s experiences of violence while privileging men’s feelings and rights.
Gender Power and Representations of Cree Law
Author | : Emily Snyder |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780774835718 |
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Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), Snyder argues that they do not capture the complexities of gendered power relations. The majority of these resources either erase women’s legal authority by not mentioning them, or they diminish their agency by portraying Cree laws and gender roles in inflexible, aesthetically pleasing ways that overlook power imbalances and other forms of oppression.
Privatization Law and the Challenge to Feminism
Author | : Brenda Cossman,Judy Fudge |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0802085091 |
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Examining eight case studies on the role of law in various arenas, this collection of essays addresses the reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family caused by privatization.
Governance Feminism
Author | : Janet Halley,Prabha Kotiswaran,Rachel Rebouché,Hila Shamir |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781452956404 |
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Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state Feminists walk the halls of power. Governance Feminism: An Introduction shows how some feminists and feminist ideas—but by no means all—have entered into state and state-like power in recent years. Being a feminist can qualify you for a job in the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the local prosecutor’s office, or the child welfare bureaucracy. Feminists have built institutions and participate in governance. The authors argue that governance feminism is institutionally diverse and globally distributed. It emerges from grassroots activism as well as statutes and treaties, as crime control and as immanent bureaucracy. Conflicts among feminists—global North and South; left, center, and right—emerge as struggles over governance. This volume collects examples from the United States, Israel, India, and from transnational human rights law. Governance feminism poses new challenges for feminists: How shall we assess our successes and failures? What responsibility do we shoulder for the outcomes of our work? For the compromises and strange bedfellows we took on along the way? Can feminism foster a critique of its own successes? This volume offers a pathway to critical engagement with these pressing and significant questions.
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
Author | : Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 0674896467 |
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Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it to the State.