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• Title:Law and politics at the perimeter : re-evaluating key debates in feminist theory / Vanessa E. Munro.
  
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• Author/Creator:Munro, Vanessa.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2007.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K349 .M86 2007 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Feminist jurisprudence.
  
• Description:viii, 173 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Legal theory today.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781841133522 (pbk.)
  1841133523 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Development and Dilemmas of Feminist Theory
  Feminist Commonalities
  Feminist Contestations
  Assimilation Model
  Case For and Against Assimilation
  Two Faces of Assimilation
  Celebrating Difference
  Case For and Against Celebrating Difference
  Rise of Dominance
  Case For and Against Dominance
  Influence of Postmodernism
  Case For and Against Postmodernism
  2. Feminism(s), Law and Liberalism(s)
  Feminist Challenge to Legal Liberalism
  Feminist Challenge to Liberalism's Method: Abstraction & Individualism
  Abstraction, Context & Hollow Legal Personhood
  Abstraction, Relationships and Relations of Power
  Feminist Challenge to Liberalism's False Promise: Neutrality & Rationality
  Out of the Shadows? A Re-evaluation of the Feminist Critique
  Individualism, Egoism & Community
  Abstraction, Context & Inequality
  Justice & Care: The Rationality of Emotions
  Conclusion: A Return to Liberalism?
  3. On Reform and Reforming Rights
  From Theory to Strategy: Feminist Critique & Legal Reform
  Case for De-Centering Law
  Evaluation of the 'De-Centering' Thesis
  Approaching Reform in the Third Way?
  Feminist Reform and Women's Rights
  Feminist Challenge to Rights
  Rights are too Individualistic
  Rights are too Abstract
  Rights and Wrong Assumptions
  Towards the Reconstruction of Rights
  Conclusion: On Rights & Reforming Rights
  4. Power, Domination and Patriarchy
  Perspectives on Power - Foucault v MacKinnon?
  Perspectives on Power and the Possibility of Resistance
  Perspectives on Power and the Role of Discourse
  Perspectives on Power and the Deployment of Sexuality
  Perspectives on Domination - Foucault and MacKinnon?
  Final Foucault and Domination
  Final Foucault and Resistance
  Final Foucault and Feminism
  5. Womanhood, Essentialism and Identity
  Setting the Scene: Essentialism and Difference
  Strategic Essentialism
  Iris Marion Young: Gender as Seriality
  Back to the Rough Ground: Wittgenstein
  Conclusion: 'False Prison' Breaks & Feminist Legal Theory
  6. Equality, Respect and Feminist Futures
  Trouble(s) with Formal Equality
  Re-formulating the Formal/Re-imagining Equality
  Equality as Empowerment?
  Equality Beyond Comparison?
  Respect as an Alternative Moral Ideal
  Respect, Sufficiency and Feminism
  Respect Beyond Equality?
  Conclusion: Toward A Respect Agenda.