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Women, Law And Patriarchal Relations: Perspectives Within The Sociology Of Law, Shelley Gavigan

Shelley A. M. Gavigan

In this paper I wish to examine three important theoretical perspectives within the sociology of law, with a view to determining their usefulness and relevance in the development of an analysis that integrates sexual difference.e and gender relations or in other words, a sociology of law that is not blind to the significance of gender and the specificity of men's and women's lived experience. The literature in the area of sociology of law has begun to flower, and sophisticated critical scholarship has emerged. The work of a feminist in the sociology of law is thus well assisted with an excellent …