Introduction to feminist jurisprudence
Aims to provide a student text which covers the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyze the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject despite the achievements of formal legal equality on the part of women
1 online resource (xiii, 349 pages)
9781843142720, 9781135350574, 1843142724, 1135350574
252996180
Preliminaries; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Gender Inequalities and Law; 3 Patriarchy; 4 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: I Ancient Greek Political Thought and Natural Law Theory; 5 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: II Positive Law and Social Contract Theory; 6 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I Liberalism and Marxism; 7 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: II Difference feminism/cultural feminism; 8 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: III Radical Feminism; 9 Postmodernism and Critical Legal Studies; 10 Women and Medicine