1st Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law

192 Pages

by Routledge-Cavendish

192 Pages

by Routledge-Cavendish

192 Pages

by Routledge-Cavendish

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Description

The law of contract is ripe for feminist analysis. Despite increasing calls for the re-conceptualisation of neo-classical ways of thinking, feminist perspectives on contract tend to be marginalised in mainstream textbooks. This edited collection questions the assumptions made in such works and the ideologies that underpin them, drawing attention to the ways in which the law of contract has... Read more

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Editor(s)

Biography

Linda Mulcahy, Sally Wheeler

Critics' Reviews

"Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law provides an excellent contribution to contract law and to the Feminist Perspectives series... a book well worth reading." - Janice Richardson in Feminist Legal Studies, Issue 14 (2006)

"This book offers fascinating insights...[and] makes an important contribution to contract scholarship." - International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 2.4 (2007)

"Each chapter in Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law illuminates the less visible malecentric aspects of contract law, renewing and introducing feminist approaches that enrich historical, jurisprudential and theoretical understandings that have relevance for broader aspects of law." - Dermot Feenan, Social & Legal Studies, 17 (2), 2008