Law Selfhood And Feminist Philosophy

Author : Janice Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000921557

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Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy by Janice Richardson Pdf

At the intersection of law, feminism and philosophy, this book analyses the ways in which certain bodies and ‘selves’ continue to be treated as monstrous aberrations from the ‘ideal’ figure or norm. Employing contemporary feminist philosophy to rethink accepted legal ideas, the book is divided into three sections. The first focuses on the different relational ontologies of philosophers Adriana Cavarero and Christine Battersby – also considering their work via a third term: Spinoza. The second turns to diverse feminist engagements with the social contract theorists. The third section employs insights from throughout the book to focus more explicitly on law – and, in particular privacy law and the so-called ‘wrongful birth’ cases. Bringing together more than twenty years of sustained reflection, this book offers an insightful account of how contemporary feminist philosophy can contribute to a richer understanding of law. It will be of enormous interest to scholars and students working in the areas of legal theory, feminist thought and philosophy.

Author : Janice Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351901185

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Selves, Persons, Individuals by Janice Richardson Pdf

Whilst feminist philosophy has frequently engaged with political theory, this original book instead considers legal theory and the practical operation of law. The work considers some of the contested meanings of what it is to be a self, a person or an individual in relation to the law of obligations. The discussion still impacts upon political theory as it concerns the way in which the question of what it is to be a woman has been defined within recent feminist theory. In order to overcome what appears to be a block in feminist legal theory, the book draws together areas of philosophy which are not normally considered within feminist or legal theory.

Author : Janice Richardson,Ralph Sandland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135343576

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Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory by Janice Richardson,Ralph Sandland Pdf

What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy? This book uses the failure of women to fit within male models of both law and theory as a way to rethink legal questions,including the meaning of equality, freedom, justice and citizenship. This includes concern about the way in which queer theory and critical race theory - as well as issues of class - intersect with feminist theory today. It also raises issues about the relationship between political theory and practice and the productive intersection between debates within law, philosophy and feminism. This collection of essays on feminist legal theory therefore provides an interdisciplinary approach, drawn not only from law and philosophy, but also from cultural and womens studies. Feminism may still be on the margins of both law and philosophy, yet it has the ability to disrupt both. This book moves beyond a feminist critique of existing frameworks to the constructive project of reworking theory from within. It goes beyond debates of traditional jurisprudence to draw its tools from the growing body of work on feminist philosophy - including the writings of Luce Irigaray, Drucilla Cornell and Christine Battersby - which intersect both contemporary continental philosophy and critical legal theory.

Author : Rosemary Hunter,Sharon Cowan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135331184

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Choice and Consent by Rosemary Hunter,Sharon Cowan Pdf

This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory. Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theoretical knowledge, this collection of essays presents a dialogue between different feminist positions and approaches to a common theme. It addresses a range of questions, including: Can 'consent' be rethought and infused with different meanings in a post-liberal feminist politics? Can the concepts of 'choice' and 'consent' have consistent meanings and functions between different areas of law, or whether they prove to be highly contingent when viewed across the broad field of law. Exploring the deeply gendered concepts of ‘choice’ and ‘consent’ and examining the philosophical and jurisprudential issues surrounding them as well as how ‘choice’ and ‘consent’ operate in particular areas of law, including criminal law, medical law, constitutional law, employment law, family law and civil procedure, this volume is a key resource for postgraduate law students studying jurisprudence.

Author : Matthew H. Kramer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Critical legal studies
ISBN : 0847679888

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Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism by Matthew H. Kramer Pdf

Author : Keya Maitra,Jennifer McWeeny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Feminist theory
ISBN : 9780190867614

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Feminist Philosophy of Mind by Keya Maitra,Jennifer McWeeny Pdf

"This collection is the first book to focus on the emerging field of study called feminist philosophy of mind. Each of the twenty chapters of Feminist Philosophy of Mind employs theories and methodologies from feminist philosophy to offer fresh insights and perspectives into issues raised in the contemporary literature in philosophy of mind and/or uses those from the philosophy of mind to advance feminist theory. The book delineates the content and aims of the field and demonstrates the fecundity of its approach, which is centered on the collective consideration of three questions: What is the mind? Whose mind is the model for the theory? To whom is mind attributed? Topics considered with this lens include mental content, artificial intelligence, the first-person perspective, personal identity, other minds, mental attribution, mental illness, perception, memory, attention, desire, trauma, agency, empathy, grief, love, gender, race, sexual orientation, materialism, panpsychism, and enactivism. In addition to engaging analytic and feminist philosophical traditions, essays draw from resources in phenomenology, philosophy of race, decolonial studies, disability studies, embodied cognition theory, comparative philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology"--

Author : Maria Drakopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135144876

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Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy by Maria Drakopoulou Pdf

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. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal doctrine, legal concepts and ideas, or critical assessments of the effects that specific areas of law have upon the lives of women. This collection, however, although rooted in feminist legal scholarship, takes the established canon of legal texts as the object of inquiry. Taking as their common starting point the fact that legal texts are plural and open to multiple readings, all the contributions in this collection offer subversive, but supplementary, interpretations of the legal canon. In this respect, however, 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. Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary collection that will interest students and scholars of Law, Philosophy, and Feminism.

Author : Madhavi Sunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351157742

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Gender and Feminist Theory in Law and Society by Madhavi Sunder Pdf

This volume chronicles a quarter-century of feminist theorizations on equality and liberty. The essays demonstrate a continuing commitment to feminist method (a democratic notion that all people have a right to participate in the production of knowledge of the world, including legal knowledge) and manifest feminism's continuing critical tradition (namely, theorists' willingness to see multiple factors, including feminism itself, as obstructing enlightened constructions of the world). Taken together, the essays suggest that liberty to make the world is not just a means to an end - equality - but is a substantive end in itself.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136204784

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At the Boundaries of Law (RLE Feminist Theory) by Martha Albertson Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen Pdf

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women’s roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women’s lives. Together the essays examine the fertile – and radically revisionary – links between feminism and legal theory. But At the Boundaries of Law rejects the abstract ‘grand theorizing’ of traditional feminist legal theory, focusing instead on the concrete and material implications of the legal injustices endured by women. These essays emphasise the complex diversity of female experience, collectively arguing for legal theory and practice that both recognises and accommodates the concept of ‘difference’ – in gender, class, race and sexual orientation. At the Boundaries of Law also raises provocative questions about the methodology and future of feminist legal theory itself. In its rich variety of issues and approaches, this volume will command the interest not only of legal theorists, but of those interested in women’s studies, philosophy, politics, sociology and history. It is sure to set the future agenda for scholars, policymakers and anyone concerned with the role of law in society.

Author : Susan James,Stephanie Palmer
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841131955

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Visible Women by Susan James,Stephanie Palmer Pdf

How should feminist theories conceive of the subject? What is it to be a legal person? What part does embodiment play in subjectivity? Can there be a conception of rights which does justice to the social contexts in which rights claims are embedded? Is the way the law constitutes legal subjects a form of violence? These questions lie at the heart of contemporary feminist theory,and in this collection they are addressed by a group of distinguished international scholars working in law, philosophy and politics. The volume, in which the concerns of one author are taken up by others, advances current debate on two interconnected levels. First, it contains original and ground-breaking discussions of the questions raised above. At the same time, it contains a more reflexive strand of argument about the intellectual resources available to feminist thinkers, and the advantages and dangers of borrowing from non-feminist traditions of thought. It thus provides an exceptionally rich examination of contemporary legal and political feminist theory.

Author : Martha Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780415635028

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At the Boundaries of Law by Martha Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen Pdf

Annotation Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women's roles, identities, and rights. This timely work provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women's lives.

Author : Katherine Bartlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429980114

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Feminist Legal Theory by Katherine Bartlett Pdf

This book offers powerful analyses of the relationship between law and gender and new understandings of the limits of, and opportunities for, legal reform drawn from the experiences of women and from critical perspectives developed within other disciplines.

Author : Martha A. Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1283861275

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At the Boundaries of Law (Rle Feminist Theory): Feminism and Legal Theory by Martha A. Fineman,Nancy Sweet Thomadsen Pdf

Feminists have recently begun to challenge the powerful influence of the law on the social and cultural construction of women s roles, identities, and rights. At the Boundaries of Law is a timely and path-breaking work that provides a series of non-technical, interdisciplinary explorations into the nature and effects of legal regulation on women s lives. Together the essays examine the fertile and radically revisionary links between feminism and legal theory. But At the Boundaries of Law rejects the abstract grand theorizing of traditional feminist legal theory, focusing instead on the concrete and material implications of the legal injustices endured by women. These essays emphasise the complex diversity of female experience, collectively arguing for legal theory and practice that both recognises and accommodates the concept of difference in gender, class, race and sexual orientation. At the Boundaries of Law also raises provocative questions about the methodology and future of feminist legal theory itself. In its rich variety of issues and approaches, this volume will command the interest not only of legal theorists, but of those interested in women s studies, philosophy, politics, sociology and history. It is sure to set the future agenda for scholars, policymakers and anyone concerned with the role of law in society."

Author : Marilyn Pearsall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017531083

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Women and Values by Marilyn Pearsall Pdf

* French Feminism..* Writings of women of color..* Sexual harassment issues, especially on campus. .* Feminist ethics (an area of increasing interest in social and political philosophy and moral theory courses in the traditional philosophy curriculum). .* This revision also addresses the rise of reproductive technology as a feminist issue.

Author : Janice Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134097586

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Law and the Philosophy of Privacy by Janice Richardson Pdf

Situating privacy within the context of political philosophy, this book highlights the way in which struggles concerning the meaning of privacy have always been political. Different conceptions of privacy are here shown to involve diverse assumptions about ontology: our conceptions of self, culture, society and communication. Privacy theory’s debt to Locke, Kant or Mill, and what is at stake in their conceptual frameworks, is examined. The extent to which the term "privacy" has been used to the detriment of - and to create - weaker parties in marriage, in the workplace and now as citizens (or non-citizens) and consumers, as well as employees, is also demonstrated. In contrast, Janice Richardson pursues the relevance of Floridi’s philosophy of information, before turning to her application of Spinoza, the philosopher of communication, in order to outline a more useful framework through which to think about privacy today. The book will be of interest to those working in political philosophy, feminist philosophy, law, the philosophy of information, sociology, media, and cultural studies.