Postmodern Legal Feminism

by Mary Joe Frug

Overview

Mary Joe Frug charts a course for future feminist thinking about law. She identifies the political and theoretical limitations of earlier strands of legal feminism and demonstrates why postmodernism offers more hope for women in law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136643521
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Mary Joe Frug

Table of Contents

Part 1 Feminist Doctrine; Chapter 1 Sexual Equality and Sexual Difference in American Law; Chapter 2 Feminist Doctrine; Chapter 3 Progressive Feminist Legal Scholarship: Can We Claim “A Different Voice”?; Part 2 Re-reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of a Contracts Casebook; Chapter 4 A Feminist Analysis of a Casebook? An Introductory Explanation; Chapter 5 An Overview of the Contracts Casebook: Dis-covering the Gender of Contract Culture; Chapter 6 Re-reading Cases: Challenging the Gender of Two Contract Decisions; Part 3 A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto; Chapter 7 Rescuing Impossibility Doctrine: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Contract Law; Chapter 8 A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto;

Editorial Reviews

Frug, one of this country's most noted feminist legal scholars, embodies the antiessentialist feminist doctrine in eight essays collected here, three of which were published during her lifetime and five uncompleted ones issued in various law reviews after her 1991 murder. They are divided into three sections: ``Feminist Doctrine,'' ``Re-reading Contracts,'' and ``A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto.'' Frug's writing is often humorous and always penetrating, as she traces the history of legal sexual equality, reviewing important court cases. She also analyzes conservative feminist and progressive feminist readings of Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice (Harvard Univ. Pr., 1982), as well as gendered aspects of a contracts casebook. Her unfinished ``A Feminist Postmodern Legal Manifesto'' ends the book; after Frug's stabbing death, this essay was the subject of a controversial parody by the Harvard Law Review . Ironically, her ``Manifesto'' reveals how the law persists in permitting, even mandating, the terrorization, maternalization, and sexualization of the female body. Highly recommended for women's studies and law collections.-- Paula N. Arnold, Norwich Univ. Lib., Northfield, Vt.

Library Journal

"Thecollection of essays makes a refreshingly open and valuable contribution to the feminist legal theory literature. . ." — Women and Politics,Winter '96 The collection of essays...makes a refreshingly open and valuable contribution to the feminist legal theory literature...the politics of her work offer a challenge to traditional legal scholarship reminiscent of the Critical Legal Studies movement.

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