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This volume carefully examines the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. It identifies social, political, economic, d...
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17 February 2016

Half a century after the beginning of the second wave, feminist legal theorists are still writing about many of the subjects they addressed early on: money, sex, reproduction, and jobs. What has changed is the way that they talk about these subjects. Specifically, these theorists now posit a more complex and nuanced conception of power. Recent scholarship recognizes the complexities of power in contemporary society, the ways in which these complexities entrench sex inequality, and the role that law can play in reducing inequality and increasing agency. The feminist legal theorists in this volume are emblematic of this effort. They carefully examine the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. In doing so they identify social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Finally, they give sophisticated thought to the possibilities for legal interventions in light of these more complex notions of power.
Price: $149.99
Pages: 264
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
Publication Date:
17 February 2016
ISBN: 9781785607837
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LAW / Gender & the Law, Law & society, sociology of law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
In this collection of essays, legal scholars and feminist legal theorists examine the relationship among gender, equality, and power in realms including sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, and money. They pay special attention to relevant social, political, economic, and psychological forces, in an effort to establish models for analyzing sex and gender inequality. Areas of concern include legal regulation of sexuality, reproductive decision-making, women’s sexual agency and the law of rape in the 21st century, feminism and therapy culture, and women’s entry into the paid workplace.
Edited by Austin Sarat, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, USA
Maxine Eichner, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Clare Huntington, Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY, USA
Introduction - Maxine Eichner and Clare Huntington
Going Wild: Law and Literature and Sex - Susan Frelich Appleton and Susan Ekberg Stiritz
Women’s Sexual Agency and the Law of Rape In the 21st Century - Katharine K. Baker and Michelle Oberman
Care and Danger: Feminism and Therapy Culture - Angela P. Harris
Market-Cautious Feminism - Maxine Eichner
Unequal Terms: Gender, Power, and The Recreation of Hierarchy - June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
Schrodinger’s Child: Non-Identity and Probabilities in Reproductive Decision-Making - Jennifer S. Hendricks