Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory Vol: 69

Austin Sarat
Amherst College, USA


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Hardback
ISBN:
9781785607837
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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264 pages - 152 x 229 x 18mm
Series:
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
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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.

Introduction - Maxine Eichner and Clare HuntingtonGoing Wild: Law and Literature and Sex - Susan Frelich Appleton and Susan Ekberg StiritzWomen’s Sexual Agency and the Law of Rape In the 21st Century - Katharine K. Baker and Michelle ObermanCare and Danger: Feminism and Therapy Culture - Angela P. HarrisMarket-Cautious Feminism - Maxine EichnerUnequal Terms: Gender, Power, and The Recreation of Hierarchy - June Carbone and Naomi CahnSchrodinger’s Child: Non-Identity and Probabilities in Reproductive Decision-Making - Jennifer S. Hendricks
Edited by Austin Sarat, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, USAMaxine Eichner, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAClare Huntington, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY, USA

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