LEADER 04594nam 22005655 450 001 996248336203316 005 20230422052054.0 010 $a1-282-75389-4 010 $a9786612753893 010 $a1-4008-2333-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823338 035 $a(CKB)2670000000043840 035 $a(EBL)667127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216800 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209817 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216800 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10198415 035 $a(PQKB)10505106 035 $a(DE-B1597)446265 035 $a(OCoLC)979685418 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC667127 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000043840 100 $a20190708d1999 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur Lives Before the Law $eConstructing a Feminist Jurisprudence /$fJudith A. Baer 205 $aCore Textbook 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-01945-2 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tPART I: LAW THROUGH WOMEN'S LIVES --$tONE. Introduction --$tTWO. Is Law Male? The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence --$tTHREE. What Makes Law Male? Gendered Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique --$tFOUR. How Is Law Male? Gendered Method and Feminist Response --$tPART II: WOMEN'S LIVES THROUGH LAW --$tFIVE. Reconstructing Equality: Feminist Constitutional Doctrine --$tSIX. Reconstructing Rights: Feminist Reproductive Freedom --$tSEVEN. Reconstructing Responsibility: Feminist Fetal Protection --$tEIGHT. Toward a Feminist Post liberalism --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tGENERAL INDEX --$tINDEX OF CASES 330 $aAccording to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In Our Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence--one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh and creative ways with liberalism. Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for this bias. By emphasizing the ways in which the system fails women, feminists have lost sight of how it can be used to promote women's interests and have made it easy for conventional scholars to ignore legitimate feminist concerns. In particular, feminists have wrongly linked the genuine flaws of conventional legal theory to its basis in liberalism, arguing that liberalism focuses too heavily on individual freedom and not enough on individual responsibility. In fact, Baer contends, liberalism rests on a presumption of personal responsibility and can be used as a powerful intellectual foundation for holding men and male institutions more accountable for their actions. The traditional feminist approach, Baer writes, has led to endless debates about such abstract matters as character differences between men and women, and has failed to deal sufficiently with concrete problems with the legal system. She thus constructs a new feminist interpretation of three central components of conventional theory--equality, rights, and responsibility--through analysis of such pressing legal issues as constitutional interpretation, reproductive choice, and fetal protection. Baer concludes by presenting the outline of what she calls "feminist post-liberalism": an approach to jurisprudence that not only values individual freedoms but also recognizes our responsibility for addressing individuals' needs, however different those may be for men and women. Powerfully and passionately written, Our Lives Before the Law will have a major impact on the future course of feminist legal scholarship. 606 $aFeminist jurisprudence$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aWomen 615 0$aFeminist jurisprudence$xLegal status, laws, etc 615 0$aWomen 676 $a340/.082 700 $aBaer$b Judith A.$0913157 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248336203316 996 $aOur Lives Before the Law$92320169 997 $aUNISA