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Kathryn Abrams

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How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Roundtable Discussion: Is Subversion Subversive?, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy Aug 2016

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.


How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

How To Have A Culture War, 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 …


Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, 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.


Performing Interdependence: Judith Butler And Sunaura Taylor In The Examined Life, Kathryn Abrams Feb 2013

Performing Interdependence: Judith Butler And Sunaura Taylor In The Examined Life, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

[...] in this essay I will take my bearings not simply from the film but from the text of the larger conversation, though I will consider the way that that text is given a distinctive form of life through the vehicle of the film. [...] they challenge a range of conventional legal assumptions about the body: I will detail these assumptions, and the ways they are interrogated by this conversation, in Part I. Second, this performance of interdependence points toward new, or at least less familiar, ways of deploying the law, a focus I take up in Part II.


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.