Ebook: Feminist Perspectives on Law & Theory
Author: Richardson Janice, Sandland Ralph
- Tags: Feminist jurisprudence., Feminist jurisprudence -- Great Britain., Great Britain., Legal status laws etc., Women., Women -- Legal status laws etc. -- Great Britain., Women's rights., Women's rights -- Great Britain.
- Series: Feminist perspectives
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken
- Language: English
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What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy? This book uses the failure of women to fit within male models of both law and theory as a way to rethink legal questions, including the meaning of equality, freedom, justice and Read more...
Abstract: What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy? This book uses the failure of women to fit within male models of both law and theory as a way to rethink legal questions, including the meaning of equality, freedom, justice and citizenship. This includes concern about the way in which queer theory and critical race theory - as well as issues of class - intersect with feminist theory today. It also raises issu