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Roundtable Discussion: Is Subversion Subversive?, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy
Roundtable Discussion: Is Subversion Subversive?, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy
Kathryn Abrams
Presents a roundtable discussion on the subversive nature of legal archaeology in women's studies. Structural tension or contradictions in women's studies; Need to fully theorize the connection of legal archaeology to the term feminist; Role of subversion in teaching humility; Evolution of feminist theory as a discipline; Role of feminism in promoting democracy.
Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams
Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams
Kathryn Abrams
In this Article, Professor Abrams examines the emergence of feminist narrative scholarship as a distinctive form of critical legal discourse. Arguing that the failure to debate publicly the conventions and merits of this form has perpetuated misunderstandings about its claims and disadvantaged its practitioners, she begins by examining several of the critiques that have been offered, in nonpublic settings, of feminist narratives. To provide background and context for examining these critiques, she then analyzes four recent examples of feminist narrative legal scholarship. In the final section of the Article, Professor Abrams returns to the opening critiques. She argues that their …
Emotions In The Mobilization Of Rights, Kathryn Abrams
Emotions In The Mobilization Of Rights, Kathryn Abrams
Kathryn Abrams
What is the relation between emotions and rights? It is not a question for which answers spring readily to mind, particularly for legal scholars. Rights may be conceived as inhering in, or being conferred upon, a post- Enlightenment, rationalist subject, who is hardly a creature brimming with affect. They may be associated, for some, with abstract claims of entitlement, and, for others, with intricate Hohfeldian frameworks that connect them with state or private obligations: neither association brings emotions to mind. Moreover, the literatures which explore the meaning, mobilization, recognition, and constitutive effects of rights provide little more guidance. Few acknowledge …