Feminist encounters with legal philosophy /

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Imprint:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
©2013
Description:ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Law -- Philosophy.
Feminist theory.
Feminism.
Feminism.
Feminist theory.
Law -- Philosophy.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9981995
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Other authors / contributors:Drakopoulou, Maria, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780415497602 (hbk.)
0415497604 (hbk.)
9780203797112 (ebk.)
0203797116 (ebk.)
Notes:"A glasshouse book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal doctrine, legal concepts and ideas, or critical assessments of the effects that specific areas of law have upon the lives of women. This collection, however, although rooted in feminist legal scholarship, takes the established canon of legal texts as the object of inquiry. Taking as their common starting point the fact that legal texts are plural and open to multiple readings, all the contributions in this collection offer subversive, but supplementary, interpretations of the legal canon. In this respect, however, they do not merely sustain an array of feminist styles and theories of reading. Revealing, and re-appropriating, the plural space of legal interpretation, they seek to open a hitherto unexplored arena for a feminist politics of law. Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary collection that will interest students and scholars of Law, Philosophy, and Feminism"--Provided by publisher.

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