Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence

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Label

Research handbook on feminist jurisprudence

Statement of responsibility

edited by Robin West (Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law School), and Cynthia Grant Bowman (Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, US)

Contributor

• West, Robin, 1954-
• Edward Elgar Publishing
• Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 1945-

Editor

• West, Robin, 1954-
• Bowman, Cynthia Grant, 1945-

Publisher

• Edward Elgar Publishing

Subject

• Feminist jurisprudence -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Electronic books

Genre

• Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and queer feminist legal theories. Featuring contributions from a diverse team of prominent scholars, this Research Handbook illuminates the ways in which feminist scholarship has enriched understandings of law's sometimes subordinating structures and the ways in which law can be interpreted or changed so as to promote the equality, liberty, wellbeing, and interests of women. The expert contributors offer a vast range of feminist perspectives on law, including liberal, radical, and post-modern feminism, and explore the implications of these theoretical stances for understandings of the nature of law, legal change, and the relationship between law and politics. Chapters analyse the influence of feminist legal theories on doctrinal areas of law including US constitutional and civil rights law, international law, and various areas of private law. This insightful book will be of interest to law students, legal scholars, and scholars of political and moral philosophy seeking to understand the entire body of feminist legal scholarship from the early 1970s to the present, as well as its variants, and relationships among different theoretical perspectives

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

K349

LC item number

.R47 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Research handbooks in legal theory series