Feminist legal theory : an anti-essentialist reader /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | x, 417 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4771987 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Michelle S. Jacobs
- Introduction / Nancy E. Dowd
- Pt. I. Theories, Strategies, and Methodologies
- 1. The Future of Feminist Legal Theory / Patricia A. Cain
- 2. Theorizing Difference from Multiracial Feminism / Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill
- 3. Autonomy, Aspiration, and Accomplishment: Some Steps and Barriers to Equality for Women / Patricia Smith
- 4. The Multiple Self: Exploring between and beyond Modernity and Postmodernity / John A. Powell
- 5. The Development of Feminist Consciousness among Asian American Women / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow
- 6. At the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation: Toward Lesbian Jurisprudence / Mary Eaton
- 7. The LatIndia and Mestizajes: Of Cultures, Conquests, and LatCritical Feminism / Berta Esperanza Hernandez-Truyol
- 8. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies / Peggy McIntosh
- 9. Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition / Mari J. Matsuda
- 10. Feminist Methods in International Law / Hilary Charlesworth
- 11. Turning the Gaze Back on Itself: Comparative Law, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Postcolonial Project / Brenda Cossman
- Pt. II. Women's Work and Wealth
- 12. Implementing Antiessentialism: How Gender Wars Turn into Race and Class Conflict / Joan Williams
- 13. Spiritual and Menial Housework / Dorothy E. Roberts
- 14. Toward a Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work and the Nanny Tax Debate / Taunya Lovell Banks
- 15. (Dis)Assembling Rights of Women Workers along the Global Assembly Line: Human Rights and the Garment Industry / Laura Ho, Catherine Powell and Leti Volpp
- 16. Commercial Sex: Beyond Decriminalization / Sylvia A. Law
- 17. Working without a Job: The Social Messages of the New Workfare / Matthew Diller
- 18. Equality, of the Right Sort / Edward J. McCaffery
- 19. African-American Women and Economic Justice: A Preliminary Analysis of Wealth, Family, and African-American Social Class / Patricia Hill Collins
- 20. How Should Human Rights and Development Respond to Cultural Legitimization of Gender Hierarchy in Developing Countries? / Celestine I. Nyamu
- Pt. III. Women, Children, Well-Being, and the State
- 21. Family, Feminism, and Race in America / Maxine Baca Zinn
- 22. Cracking the Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, and Self-Sufficiency / Martha Albertson Fineman
- 23. Children's Rights / Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
- 24. Coercing Privacy / Anita Allen
- 25. In Defense of Single-Parent Families / Nancy E. Dowd
- 26. From Madonna to Proletariat: Constructing a New Ideology of Motherhood in Welfare Discourse / Tonya L. Brito
- 27. We Will Get What We Ask For: Why Legalizing Gay and Lesbian Marriage Will Not "Dismantle the Legal Structure of Gender in Every Marriage" / Nancy D. Polikoff
- 28. "The Past Never Vanishes": A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian Family Doctrine / Lorie M. Graham
- 29. Transracial and International Adoption: Mothers, Hierarchy, Race, and Feminist Legal Theory / Twila L. Perry
- 30. Gender Matters: Implications for Clinical Research and Women's Health Care / Karen H. Rothenberg
- 31. The Fuzzy Logic of Race and Gender in the Mismeasure of Asian American Women's Health Needs / Lisa C. Ikemoto
- 32. Representing Race: Unshackling Black Motherhood / Dorothy E. Roberts
- 33. Blaming Culture for Bad Behavior / Leti Volpp
- 34. Bridges and Barricades: Rethinking Polemics and Intransigence in the Campaign against Female Circumcision / L. Amede Obiora
- Pt. IV. Women and Violence: Individuals, the State, and Other Actors
- 35. Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice / Angela P. Harris
- 36. Multiple Masculinities: A New Vision for Same-Sex Harassment Law / Rachel L. Toker
- 37. "It's like Living in Black Hole": Women of Color and Solitary Confinement in the Prison Industrial Complex / Cassandra Shaylor
- 38. The Shame of It: Gender-Based Terrorism in the Former Yugoslavia and the Failure of International Human Rights Law to Comprehend the Injuries / Amy E. Ray
- 39. Commercial Sex: Beyond Decriminalization / Sylvia A. Law
- 40. Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong / Sumi K. Cho
- 41. The Violence Against Women Act and the Construction of Multiple Consciousness in the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements / Jenny Rivera
- 42. Cultural Evidence and Male Violence: Are Feminist and Multicultural Reformers on a Collision Course in Criminal Courts? / Holly Maguigan
- 43. Ignoring the Sexualization of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory, and Anti-Racist Politics / Darren Lenard Hutchinson
- 44. Requiring Battered Women Die: Murder Liability for Mothers under Failure to Protect Statutes / Michelle S. Jacobs
- 45. Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Feminist Responses to Violent Injustice / Martha Minow
- 46. Enhancing Autonomy for Battered Women: Lessons from Navajo Peacemaking / Donna Coker.
