Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence

by Hilaire Barnett

Overview

This book provides a student text covering the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135350574
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	364
File size:	595 KB

About the Author

Hilaire Barnett Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Gender Inequalities and Law; Chapter 3 Patriarchy; Part 2 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique; Chapter 4 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: I Ancient Greek Political Thought and Natural Law Theory; Chapter 5 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: II Positive Law and Social Contract Theory; Part 3 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought; Chapter 6 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I Liberalism and Marxism; Chapter 7 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: II Difference Feminism/Cultural Feminism; Chapter 8 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: III Radical Feminism; Chapter 9 Postmodernism and Critical Legal Studies; Part 4 Key Issues in Feminist Jurisprudence; Chapter 10 Women and Medicine; Chapter 11 Women, violence and the Legal System; Chapter 12 Pornography and Prostitution;