Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

by Maria Drakopoulou (Editor)

Overview

Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. They do not merely sustain an array of feminist styles and theories of reading; revealing,and re-appropriating the plural space of legal interpretation, they seek to open a hitherto unexplored arena for a feminist politics of law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415497602
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/2013
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Maria Drakopoulou is Reader in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Maria Drakopoulou 2. A Voice Beyond The Law: Reading Cavarero Reading Plato Patrick Hanafin 3. The Sex Of Reason: Aquinas And The Misogynist Foundations Of Natural Law Margaret Denike 4. The Accidental Feminist: On The Pythagorean Roots Of John Selden’s Jani Anglorum Peter Goodrich 5. Hobbes, Unhealthy Desires And Freedom: A Feminist Reading Janice Richardson 6. Samuel Pufendorf, Feminism And The Question Of ‘Women And Law’ Maria Drakopoulou 7. Blackstone, Bentham And The Romance Of Law Susan Chaplin 8. Hegel On Law, Women, And Contract Alison Stone 9. Resonance: Why Feminists Do/Ought Not Read Kelsen Panu Minkkinen 10. Legal Form, Commodities And Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis Ruth Fletcher 11. Reading Arendt ‘Reading’ Schmitt: Reading Nomos Otherwise? Julia H. Chryssostalis 12. Ambiguities: Law, Morality, And Legal Subjectivity In H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept Of Law Emma Cunliffe