The Ashgate research companion to feminist legal theory / edited by Margaret Davies, Flinders University, Australia ; Vanessa E. Munro, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Series: Ashgate research companionPublication details: London ; New York ; Routledge, 2018.Description: xi, 423 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9781138476813

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Research companion to feminist legal theory

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DDC classification:

23 340.1 As35

Contents:

Contesting the dominant paradigm : feminist critiques of liberal legalism / Rosemary Hunter -- Feminism, law and materialism : reclaiming the 'tainted' realm / Joanne Conaghan -- Freedom, power, and agency in feminist legal theory / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Law's truths and the truth about law : interdisciplinary refractions / Margaret Davies -- Equality and difference : fertile tensions or fatal contradictions for advancing the interests of disadvantaged women? / Elsje Bonthuys -- 'What a long, strange trip it's been' : feminist and queer travel with sex, gender and sexuality / Sharon Cowan -- Theorizing race, theorizing racism : new directions in interdisciplinary scholarship / Jennifer C. Nash -- Feminists rethink multiculturalism : resisting essentialism and cross-cultural hypocrisy / Sarah Song -- In the name of God? : religion and feminist legal theory / Samia Bano -- Gender and terrain : feminists theorize citizenship / Margot Young -- International human rights law : towards rethinking sex/gender dualism / Diane Otto -- A new frontline for feminism and international humanitarian law / Judith Gardam -- Violence against women, 'victimhood' and the (neo)liberal state / Vanessa E. Munro -- The body, bodies, embodiment : feminist legal engagement with health / Marie Fox and Thérèse Murphy -- Motherhood and law : constructing and challenging normativity / Susan B. Boyd -- Marriage and civil partnership : law's role, feminism's response / Rosemary Auchmuty -- Gendered power over taxes and budgets / Åsa Gunnarsson -- From women and labour law to putting gender and law to work / Judy Fudge -- Gender, justice and law in a global market / Ann Stewart -- Women, migration and the constitutional underpinning of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt -- Ecofeminism and the environment : international law and climate change / Karen Morrow.

Summary: "As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at its broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

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Contesting the dominant paradigm : feminist critiques of liberal legalism / Rosemary Hunter --
Feminism, law and materialism : reclaiming the 'tainted' realm / Joanne Conaghan --
Freedom, power, and agency in feminist legal theory / Nancy J. Hirschmann --
Law's truths and the truth about law : interdisciplinary refractions / Margaret Davies --
Equality and difference : fertile tensions or fatal contradictions for advancing the interests of disadvantaged women? / Elsje Bonthuys --
'What a long, strange trip it's been' : feminist and queer travel with sex, gender and sexuality / Sharon Cowan --
Theorizing race, theorizing racism : new directions in interdisciplinary scholarship / Jennifer C. Nash --
Feminists rethink multiculturalism : resisting essentialism and cross-cultural hypocrisy / Sarah Song --
In the name of God? : religion and feminist legal theory / Samia Bano --
Gender and terrain : feminists theorize citizenship / Margot Young --
International human rights law : towards rethinking sex/gender dualism / Diane Otto --
A new frontline for feminism and international humanitarian law / Judith Gardam --
Violence against women, 'victimhood' and the (neo)liberal state / Vanessa E. Munro --
The body, bodies, embodiment : feminist legal engagement with health / Marie Fox and Thérèse Murphy --
Motherhood and law : constructing and challenging normativity / Susan B. Boyd --
Marriage and civil partnership : law's role, feminism's response / Rosemary Auchmuty --
Gendered power over taxes and budgets / Åsa Gunnarsson --
From women and labour law to putting gender and law to work / Judy Fudge --
Gender, justice and law in a global market / Ann Stewart --
Women, migration and the constitutional underpinning of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt --
Ecofeminism and the environment : international law and climate change / Karen Morrow.

"As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at its broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

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