Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814719139 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 417 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Harris, Sylvia A. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with “African American feminism” or “critical race feminism” added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers
“Recommend quite strongly this well-edited and thought-provoking text. With its emphasis on collaboration, it includes necessary but uncomfortable conversations, recognizing the challenges of cultural ethnocentrism and relativism which American feminists face. There are few expectations upon which it does not deliver.”-Feminist Legal Studies. It provides a valuable contribution to legal scholarship.”-Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice“If one wants to engage with the differences of women’s lives in experiences, Dowd and Jacob’s Anti-Essentialist Reader w
Levin College of Law and holds the David H. Dowd is Director of the Center for Children and Families at the University of Florida Fredric G. She is the author of several books, including Redefining Fatherhood (NYU Press).Michelle S. Nancy E. Jacobs is Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.. Levin Chair in Family Law