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Subject(s)

• Feminist jurisprudence—United States [Browse]
• Women—Legal status, laws, etc—United States—History [Browse]

Editor

• Chamallas, Martha [Browse]
• Williams, Verna L. [Browse]

Series

• Oxford handbooks [More in this series]
• Oxford handbooks series [More in this series]

Summary note

"Earlier. While the term "feminist" was not used in the United States until the 1910s, the foundations of feminist legal theory were first conceptualized as early as 1848 and developed over the next one hundred and fifty years. This chapter traces that development. It begins with the establishment of the core theoretical precepts of gender and equality grounded in the surprisingly comprehensive philosophy of the nineteenth-century's first women's rights movement ignited at Seneca Falls. It then shows how feminist legal theory was popularized and advanced by the political activism of the women's suffrage movement, even as suffragists limited the feminist consensus to one based on women's maternalism. Progressive feminism then expanded the theoretical framework of feminist theory in the early twentieth century, encapsulating ideas of global peace, market work, and sex rights of birth control. In the modern era, legal feminists gravitated back to pragmatic and concrete ideas of formal equality, and the associated legalisms of equal rights and equal protection. Yet through each of these periods, the two common imperatives were to place women at the center of analysis and to recognize law as a fundamental agent of change"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The long history of feminist legal theory / Tracy A. Thomas
• Liberal feminist jurisprudence : foundational, enduring, adaptive / Linda C. McClain and Brittany K. Hacker
• Dominance feminism : placing sexualized power at the center / Kathryn Abrams
• A relational approach to law and its core concepts / Jennifer Nedelsky
• A genealogy of intersectionality / Emily Houh
• Sex-positive feminism's values in search of the law of pleasure / Susan Frelich Appleton
• Feminism is dead, long live feminisms : a postmodern take on the road to gender equality / Camille Gear Rich
• Gender disruption, amelioration, and transformation : a comparative perspective / Rosalind Dixon and Amelia Loughland
• When queer theory goes to law school / Brenda Cossman
• Masculinities theory as impetus for change in feminism and law / Ann C. McGinley
• Governance feminism and distributional analysis / Aziza Ahmed
• The equal rights amendment, then and now / Julie C. Suk
• The Anti-rape and battered women's movements of the 1970s and 1980s / Leigh Goodmark
• The Title IX movement against campus sexual harassment : how a civil rights law and a feminist movement inspired each other / Nancy Chi Cantalupo
• Feminism and #MeToo : the power of the collective / Tristin K. Green
• From reproductive rights to reproductive justice : abortion in constitutional law and politics / Mary Ziegler
• Law and economics against feminism / Martha T. McCluskey
• Backlash against feminism : rethinking a loaded concept / Sally J. Kenney
• Sexual harassment : the promise and limits of a feminist cause of action / Theresa M. Beiner
• Degendering the law through stereotype theory / Stephanie Bornstein
• Beyond battered women's syndrome / Sarah M. Buel
• Title IX : separate but equal for girls and women in athletics / Erin E. Buzuvis
• Consent, rape, and the criminal law / Katharine K. Baker and Michelle Oberman
• Pregnancy and work : 50 years of legal theory, litigation, and legislation / Deborah A. Widiss
• Constitutionalizing reproductive rights (and justice) / Melissa Murray and Hilarie Meyers
• Disputed conceptions of motherhood / Jennifer S. Hendricks
• Applying international feminist insights to gendered violence in the United States / Tracy E. Higgins
• Feminism's transformation of legal education and unfinished agenda / Jamie R. Abrams
• Feminist judging : theories and practices / Kristin Kalsem
• Contract's influence on feminism and vice versa / Martha M. Ertman
• Feminism, privacy, and law in cyberspace / Michele Estrin Gilman
• Environmental law and feminism / Cinnamon P. Carlarne
• Reconceptualizing the terms and conditions of entry to the United States : a feminist reimagining of immigration law / Maria L. Ontiveros
• Invisible women and intangible property : a feminist consciousness raising for authors and inventors / Ann Bartow
• A taxing feminism / Anthony C. Infanti and Bridget J. Crawford
• Tort law and feminism / Sarah L. Swan.

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Other title(s)

Feminism and law in the United States

ISBN

• 9780197519998 ((hardback))
• 0197519997 ((hardback))

LCCN

2022049852

OCLC

1356967026

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