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Review Essay - Feminist Jurisprudence, Christina Whitman
Review Essay - Feminist Jurisprudence, Christina Whitman
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In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of "women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upon the precedent made in race cases, precedent which assumed that the appropriate goal for social change was equality and defined equality as the similar treatment of similarly situated individuals. The key to the early legal victories …
Book Review. Law's Patriarchy, Lynne N. Henderson
Book Review. Law's Patriarchy, Lynne N. Henderson
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