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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827170803321

Titolo

Special Issue : Feminist Legal Theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78560-782-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, , 1059-4337 ; ; 69

Altri autori (Persone)

Austin Sarat

Disciplina

340.082

Soggetti

Law - Gender & the Law

Social Science - Feminism & Feminist Theory

Law & society

Gender & the law

Feminism & feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Transdisciplinary OpportunitiesApplications; Sex Surveys: An Immediate Contact Zone; Catching Third Waves; Naming the Unnamed in Wild Zones; Doing It: Student Papers; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; AFTERWORD: Sample Syllabus (Excerpts) Seminar Regulating Sex: Historical and Cultural Encounters; Spring 2015; References; Women's Sexual Agency and the Law of Rape in the 21st Century; Modern Rape Reform; Sex Narratives; The Second Wave Feminist Account of Sex; Sex-Positivists' Narrative Account of Sex; As Applied to Rape Law; Contemporary Sexual Norms and Practice; Sexting

Contemporary MediaHooking Up; Mapping the Theory onto Reality; Agency; Injury; Sex; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Care and Danger: Feminism and Therapy Culture; Introduction; Defining Therapy Culture; SHARING AND CARING IN PUBLIC; Governance Femininity?; Towards a Feminist Therapy Culture; Conclusion; Notes; References; Market-Cautious Feminism; U.S. Feminism's Labor Market Bias; Arriving at the Goal of Labor Market Parity: The Feminine Mystique and Second-Wave Feminism; The Results of the Second-Wave's Push for Labor-Market Parity

What Has Been Left Out of the Mainstream Feminist Conversation: The



Market and Market IdeologyCapitalism as a Disciplinary System; In the Labor Market; In the Home; Overvaluing Work as against the Rest of Life; Moving beyond Gender Parity; The Problem with Treating Success among Women as a Zero-Sum Game; Toward Market-Cautious Feminism; Supporting Better Paid Work; Supporting Less Paid Work; Supporting the Commoning of Some Care Work; Fostering Economic Equality, Not Only Within Families, but Also Among Families; Reducing Consumerism, While Fostering Spaces for Freedom; Conclusion; Notes

AcknowledgmentsReferences; Unequal Terms: Gender, Power, and the Recreation of Hierarchy; Critical Legal Analysis, Feminism, and the Analysis of Power; The Terms of Inequality; The Ripple Effects: The Impact of Structural Power on Family Relationships; Winner Take All Power Dynamics and the Impact on Gender Equality; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Schrödinger's Child: Non-identity and Probabilities in Reproductive Decision-Making; The Non-Identity Problem; The Interests of (Future) Children; The Non-Identity Argument; The Dilemma for Law and Policy

A Further Concern: The Maternal Justification for Women's Rights

Sommario/riassunto

Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more complex and nuanced conception of power.  Recent scholarship recognizes the complexities of power in contemporary society, the ways in which these complexities entrench sex inequality, and the role that law can play in reducing inequality and increasing agency. The feminist legal theorists in this volume are emblematic of this effort. They carefully examine the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. In doing so they identify social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Finally, they give sophisticated thought to the possibilities for legal interventions in light of these more complex notions of power.