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A Forum For Women's Voices: Mediation Through A Feminist Jurisprudential Lens, Kate Mccabe
A Forum For Women's Voices: Mediation Through A Feminist Jurisprudential Lens, Kate Mccabe
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This article explores the potential that mediation offers to women as a forum to tell their stories in their own voices. Part I explains the process of mediation. Part II examines the interplay of law, mediation and women, suggesting that the adversarial system has failed to acknowledge women and neglected to hear their voices or listen to their stories. This section also investigates the role of mediation within the legal system and the dangers adherent in that position. Part III introduces feminism and feminist jurisprudence. Part IV looks at mediation as an alternative process and explores the vitality of an …