1st Edition

Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory

Edited By Janice Richardson, Ralph Sandland Copyright 2000
268 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

268 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

What is the link between the way in which women are viewed as an aberration within law - such that pregnant women initially had to be compared with sick men to claim unfair dismissal - and the view of women as monstrous within philosophy? This book uses the failure of women to fit within male models of both law and theory as a way to rethink legal questions,including the meaning of equality,... Read more
Series Editors’ Preface, Contributors, Acknowledgments, Table of Cases, Table of Statutes, Table of Abbreviations, PART I THEORY AND PRACTICE: UTOPIA, IMPOSSIBILITY AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINATION, PART II LEGAL SUBJECTIVITY: THE PERSON, SELF AND OTHER, PART III ‘MINORITARIAN POLITICS’, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Janice Richardson, Ralph Sandland