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Kathryn Abrams

Selected Works

Feminist Jurisprudence

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Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

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 …


From Autonomy To Agency: Feminist Perspectives On Self-Direction, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

From Autonomy To Agency: Feminist Perspectives On Self-Direction, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Feminist Lawyering And Legal Method, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Feminist Lawyering And Legal Method, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

A review article on books by Catharine A. MacKinnon: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law & Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1987 & 1989, respectively [see listings in IRPS No. 62]). These works offer a reassessment of feminist theory's impact on law, including the ways that legal inquiry is framed & legal arguments constructed, & the knowledge claims on which both are based. Innovations by feminist lawyers are reviewed, & their conceptions of legal roles & relationships are described. Future steps feminists need to take to bring about legal reform are outlined. K. …


Legal Feminism And The Emotions: Three Moments In An Evolving Relationship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Legal Feminism And The Emotions: Three Moments In An Evolving Relationship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Examines the relationship between legal feminism and the emotions. Example of a narrative which connected women's emotional experiences with the operation of the law; Critique of emotion-based argumentation that women experienced in the law school classroom; Scholarship on law and emotions.


Feminists In International Human Rights: The Changer And The Changed, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Feminists In International Human Rights: The Changer And The Changed, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Constitution Of Women, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

The Constitution Of Women, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Sex Wars Redux: Agency And Coercion In Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Sex Wars Redux: Agency And Coercion In Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Third Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture: The Global Impact Of Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Third Annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture: The Global Impact Of Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Second Coming Of Care, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

The Second Coming Of Care, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Legal Feminism And The Emotions: Three Moments In An Evolving Relationship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Legal Feminism And The Emotions: Three Moments In An Evolving Relationship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Examines the relationship between legal feminism and the emotions. Example of a narrative which connected women's emotional experiences with the operation of the law; Critique of emotion-based argumentation that women experienced in the law school classroom; Scholarship on law and emotions.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Sex Wars Redux: Agency And Coercion In Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Sex Wars Redux: Agency And Coercion In Feminist Legal Theory, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.