At the boundaries of law : feminism and legal theory / / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Nancy Sweet Thomadsen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463125203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-09411-5; 1-283-86127-5; 1-136-20478-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; ; v. 1
• Altri autori (Persone): FinemanMartha; ThomadsenNancy Sweet <1950->
• Disciplina: 305.4201; 342.6134; 346.01/34
• Soggetti: Women - Legal status, laws, etc; Women - Social conditions; Feminism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1991 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW Feminism and Legal Theory; Copyright; AT THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW FEMINISM AND LEGALTHEORY; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; I. Perspectives from the Personal; 1. Reasonable Women and the Law; 2. On Being the Object of Property; 3. Subordination, Rhetorical Survival Skills, and Sunday Shoes:Notes on the Hearing of Mrs. G; II. The Construction of Body in Law; 4. The Body in Legal Theory; 5. Intimacy and Responsibility: What Lesbians Do; 6. Fallen Angels: The Representation of Violence Against Women in Legal Culture; III. Recognizing Pleasures and Pains; 7. The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory8. Feminism, Sexuality and Authenticity; 9. The Problem of Privatized Injuries: Feminist Strategies for Litigation; IV. Recasting Women's History; 10. The Unbroken Circle: A Historical Study of Black Single Mothers and Their Families; 11. Religion and Rights Consciousness in the Antebellum Woman's Rights ; Movement; 12. Social Feminism and Legal Discourse, 1908-1923; V. Perspectives on Marriage and Family; 13. Homework and Women's Rights: The Case of the Vermont Knitters, 1980-1985; 14. Abandoned Women15. Societal Factors Affecting the Creation of Legal Rules for Distribution of Property at Divorce; VI. Feminist Strategies Within Legal Institutions; 16. Feminism and Legal Method: The Difference It Makes; 17. The Dialectics of Rights and Politics:Perspectives From the Women's Movement; 18. Strategizing In Equality; References; Books and Articles; Cases; Notes on Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women's lives. Together the essays examine the fertile - and radically revisionary - links between feminism and legal theory.But At the Boundaries of Law rejects the abstract 'grand theorizing' of traditional feminist legal