Search Results - "Feministing"

Feminist jurisprudence.

Feminist activism in the Supreme Court legal mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund / by Manfredi, Christopher P.

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Battered women & feminist lawmaking by Schneider, Elizabeth M.

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Feminist activism, women's rights, and legal reform /

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Legal feminism activism, lawyering, and legal theory / by Scales, Ann

Table of Contents: “…The rule of law -- Certainty and doubt -- Intractable questions -- The limits of liberalism -- Feminist legal theory -- Feminist legal method -- False consciousness -- The future of legal feminism.…”
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Our lives before the law constructing a feminist jurisprudence / by Baer, Judith A.

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The man question male subordination and privilege / by Dowd, Nancy E., 1949-

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The gender line men, women, and the law / by Levit, Nancy

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Taxing choices the intersection of class, gender, parenthood, and the law / by Johnson, Rebecca, 1963-

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The Gender Line : Men, Women, and the Law / by Levit, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Gender separatism -- How courts enforce gender separatism -- Making men : the socio-legal construct of masculinity -- The "f" word : feminism and its detractors -- Feminist legal theory and the treatment of men -- Reconstructing images of gender in theory -- Remaking gender in practice : looking forward.…”
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At home in the law how the domestic violence revolution is transforming privacy / by Suk, Jeannie

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Reasoning from race feminism, law, and the civil rights revolution / by Mayeri, Serena

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Women and the United States Constitution history, interpretation, and practice /

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Reading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy / by Krueger, Christine L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.…”
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In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / by Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.…”
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Infamous Bodies : Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights / by Pinto, Samantha

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Diversity and equality the changing framework of freedom in Canada /

Table of Contents: “…Gender, difference, and anti-essentialism : towards a feminist response to cultural claims in law /…”
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Culture and the Judiciary : The Anthropologist Judge / by Ruggiu, Ilenia

Table of Contents: “…Culture as patriarchy: the feminist objection to culture. The shifting from "culturally motivated crimes" to "gender crimes" in the law -- 14. …”
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Prostitution policy revolutionizing practice through a gendered perspective / by Kuo, Lenore

Table of Contents: “…A Sexually Charged Context, the Feminist "Sex Wars," and Prostitution Defined -- 3. …”
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Expert testimony on domestic violence a discourse analysis / by Hamilton, Melissa, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Feminist and social constructivist theories -- Critical discourse analysis in the law -- Expert witness discourse : the legal framework -- Expert witness discourse : constructing the battered woman -- The discourses of resistance.…”
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