1st Edition

Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

Edited By Maria Drakopoulou Copyright 2014
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction Maria Drakopoulou 2. A Voice Beyond The Law: Reading Cavarero Reading Plato Patrick Hanafin 3. The Sex Of Reason: Aquinas And The Misogynist Foundations Of Natural Law Margaret Denike 4. The Accidental Feminist: On The Pythagorean Roots Of John Selden’s Jani Anglorum Peter Goodrich  5. Hobbes, Unhealthy Desires And Freedom: A Feminist Reading Janice Richardson  6. Samuel Pufendorf, Feminism And The Question Of ‘Women And Law’ Maria Drakopoulou  7. Blackstone, Bentham And The Romance Of Law Susan Chaplin  8. Hegel On Law, Women, And Contract Alison Stone  9. Resonance: Why Feminists Do/Ought Not Read Kelsen Panu Minkkinen  10. Legal Form, Commodities And Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis Ruth Fletcher  11. Reading Arendt ‘Reading’ Schmitt: Reading Nomos Otherwise? Julia H. Chryssostalis  12. Ambiguities: Law, Morality, And Legal Subjectivity In H.L.A. Hart’s The Concept Of Law Emma Cunliffe

Biography

Maria Drakopoulou is Reader in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.