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Gender Justice Without Foundations, Marion Smiley
Gender Justice Without Foundations, Marion Smiley
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Feminism/Postmodernism edited by Linda J. Nicholson and Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought by Elizabeth V. Spelman
Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain
Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain
Michigan Law Review
In this article, I argue that labor unions can be an effective, central tool in a feminist agenda targeting the gendered structure of wage labor. Collective action is the most powerful and expedient route to female empowerment; further, it is the only feasible means of transforming our deeply gendered market and family structure. Others have laid the groundwork by showing how existing individual-model challenges have been unable to accomplish such broad-based reform. I begin where they leave off.