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Law and Gender

Selected Works

2011

Family Law

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton And The Notion Of A Legal Class Of Gender, Tracy A. Thomas Mar 2011

Elizabeth Cady Stanton And The Notion Of A Legal Class Of Gender, Tracy A. Thomas

Tracy A. Thomas

In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement with the law of domestic relations to collectivize women. This recognition of a gender class was the first step towards women’s transformation of the law. Stanton’s stories of working-class women, immigrants, Mormon polygamist wives, and privileged white women revealed common realities among women in an effort to form a collective conscious. The parable-like stories were designed to inspire a collective consciousness among women, one capable of arousing them to social and political action. For to Stanton’s consternation, women showed a lack of appreciation of their own …


Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg Dec 2010

Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg

Linnéa Wegerstad

No abstract provided.


Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg Dec 2010

Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg

Niklas Selberg

No abstract provided.