1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396502903316

Autore

Montaigne Michel de <1533-1592.>

Titolo

Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne [[electronic resource] ] : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations and an account of the author's life : with a short character of the author and translator, by a person of honour / / made English by Charles Cotton .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for M. Gillyflower and W. Hensman ... and R. Wellington ... and H. Hindmarsh ..., 1700

Edizione

[The third edition]

Descrizione fisica

3 v

Altri autori (Persone)

HalifaxGeorge Savile, Marquis of,  <1633-1695.>

CottonCharles <1630-1687.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: Hallifax.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786594003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-20477-6

0-203-09411-5

1-283-86127-5

1-136-20478-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 368 pages)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

305.4201

342.6134

346.01/34

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Women - Legal status, laws, etc

Women - Social conditions

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