Applications Of Feminist Legal Theory

by D. Kelly Weisberg

Overview

This book, the second of two volumes, examines the pressing issues that affect women—pornography, prostitution, battery, rape, pay equity, sexual harassment, motherhood, abortion, adoption, new reproductive technologies—and considers them through the lens of feminist legal theory. It features more than sixty articles by well-known legal scholars and feminists. The contributions are arranged thematically and include an introduction and comprehensive literature review by the editor. Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives will be a valuable text for students, a resource for scholars and policy makers, and a useful introduction for general readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439901366
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Series:	Women In The Political Economy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1200
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: Sexuality

Section 1: Pornography 
Introduction 
1. Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality – Andrea Dworkin 
2. Not a Moral Issue, in Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
3. Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
4. Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon – Thomas I. Emerson 
5. Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women and Pornographers – Rae Langton 
6. American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut 
7. Butler v. The Queen 
8. Brief Amici Curiae of Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force et al., in American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut – Nan D. Hunter and Sylvia A. Law 
9. A Feminist Critique of "The" Feminist Critique of Pornography – Nadine Strossen 
10. Sex, Sin, and Women's Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression – Carlin Meyer 
11. The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory – Robin West

Section 2: Prostitution 
Introduction 
12. Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Judith R. Walkowitz 
13. Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment – Lars O. Ericsson 
14. Defending Prostitution – Carole Pateman 
15. Prostitution and Civil Rights – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
16. The Feminist Debate over Prostitution Reform – Jody Freeman 
17. A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto – Mary Jo Frug 
18. Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform – Margaret A. Baldwin

Part II: Violence

Section 3: Battered Women 
Introduction 
19. The Roots of the Battered Women's Movement: Personal and Political – Susan Schechter 
20. State v. Wanrow 
21. Describing and Changing: Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering – Elizabeth M. Schneider 
22. Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of Women – Christine A. Littleton 
23. Legal Images of Battered Women: Redefining the Issues of Separation – Martha R. Mahoney 
24. Whose Story Is It, Anyway? En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality – Kimberlé Crenshaw 
25. Lavender Bruises – Ruthann Robson 
26. The Violence of Privacy Rape – Elizabeth M. Schneider

Section 4: Rape 
Introduction 
27. Rape: The All-American Crime – Susan Griffin 
28. Rape – Susan Estrich 
29. Michael M. v. Superior Court 
30. Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis – Frances Olsen 
31. "Rape: On Coercion and Consent" – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
32. Date Rape – Lois Pineau 
33. Rape, Racism and the Law – Jennifer Wriggens 
34. Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment – Robin West

Part III: Employment

Section 5: Employment

A. Work-Family Conflict, Occupational Segregation and Comparable Worth 
Introduction 
35. Work and Family: The Gender Paradox and the Limitations of Discrimination Analysis in Restructuring the Workplace – Nancy E. Dowd 
36. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company 
37. EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck and Company (Appellate Opinion) 
38. EEOC v. Sears: A Personal Account – Alice Kessler-Harris 
39. Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference: Or the Uses of Post-Structuralist Theory of Feminism – Joan Scott 
40. Deconstructing Gender – Joan Williams 
41. Telling Stories about Women and Work: Judicial Interpretation of Sex Segregation in the Workplace – Vicki Schultz 
42. Feminizing Unions: Challenging the Gendered Structure of Wage Labor – Marion G. Crain 
43. Comparable Worth and Its Impact on Black Women – Julianne Malveaux 
44. Barriers Facing Women in the Wage-Labor Market and the Need for Additional Remedies – Mary E. Becker 
45. Social Construction of Skill: Gender, Power, and Comparable Worth – Ronnie J. Steinberg

B. Sexual Harassment 
Introduction 
46. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson 
47. Ellison v. Brady 
48. Sex at Work – Susan Estrich 
49. What's the Big Deal? Women in New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, 1970-1985 – Elvia R. Arriola 
50. Employer Abuse, Worker Resistance, and the Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress – Regina Austin 
51. Feminist Constructions of Objectivity: Multiple Perspectives on Sexual and Racial Harassment Litigation – Martha Chamallas 
52. Exit: Power and the Idea of Leaving in Love, Work, and the Confirmation Hearings – Martha R. Mahoney

Part IV: Reproduction

Section 6: Motherhood and Reproductive Control

A. Motherhood 
Introduction 
53. M Is for the Many Things – Carol Sanger 
54. Punishing Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy – Dorothy E. Roberts 
55. The Colonization of the Womb – Nancy Ehrenreich 
56. Sapphire Bound! Regina Austin; Child Abuse: A Problem for Feminist Theory – Marie Ashe and Naomi Cahn

B. Abortion 
Introduction 
57. Roe v. Wade 
58. The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom: Three Stages of Feminism – Linda Gordon 
59. A Defense of Abortion – Judith Jarvis Thomson 
60. Privacy v. Equality: Beyond Roe v. Wade – Catharine A. MacKinnon 
61. Reasoning from the Body: A Historical Perspective on Abortion Regulation and Questions of Equal Protection – Reva Siegal 
62. Reproductive Laws, Women of Color, and Low-Income – Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson 
63. An Equal Protection Analysis of United States Reproductive Health Policy: Gender, Race, Age, and Class – Ruth Colker 
64. Reproductive Freedom and Violence Against Women: Where are the Intersections? – Lori L. Heise

C. Reproductive Technologies and Adoption 
Introduction 
65. In the Matter of Baby M, Society's Response to the New Reproductive Technologies: The Feminist Perspective – Norma J. Wikler 
66. Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists – Lori Andrews 
67. The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood – Richard A. Posner 
68. Junk Liberty – Gena Corea 
69. The Black Surrogate Mother – Anita Allen 
70. Market Inalienability – Margaret Jane Radin 
71. A Feminist Analysis of Adoption – Nancy E. Dowd

Table of Cases 
Index 
Contributors