Introduction To Feminist Jurisprudence

by Barnett; Hilaire

• ISBN13: 9781859412374
• ISBN10: 1859412378
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-09-07
• Publisher: Routledge-Caven

Summary

This book aims to provide a student text covering the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject despite the vast strides in the achievement of formal legal equality on the part of women. Whilst the literature on this subject is now extensive, it is widely dispersed and inaccessible to many students. A principal objective of this book is to redress that defect and to provide a cogent analysis of this fast moving subject.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence
Introduction	p. 3
Gender Inequalities and Law	p. 29
Patriarchy	p. 57
Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique
Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: I. Ancient Greek Political Thought and Natural Law Theory	p. 83
Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: II. Positive Law and Social Contract Theory	p. 95
Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought
Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I. Liberalism and Marxism	p. 121
Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: II. Difference feminism/cultural feminism	p. 143
Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: III. Radical Feminism	p. 163
Postmodernism and Critical Legal Studies	p. 177
Key Issues in Feminist Jurisprudence
Women and Medicine	p. 211
Women, Violence and the Legal System	p. 251
Pornography and Prostitution	p. 281
Bibliography	p. 321
Index	p. 341
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