Research Catalog

Title

Law and the sexes : explorations in feminist jurisprudence / Ngaire Naffine.

Author

Naffine, Ngaire

Publication

Sydney, N.S.W. ; Boston, Mass. : Allen & Unwin, ©1990.

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Description

xiv, 170 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This explores the problems of gender and class bias inherent in the practice and very form of law. It does this by presenting a critique of a fundamental issue in law - the individual as envisaged by Anglo-Australian and American law. It argues that while the law professes to be based on the "universal" person" abstracted from social content - a person who could be anyone anywhere - in fact, the law endows its legal subject with very specific qualities. In so doing it excludes both women and working-class men from the legal notion of the human being. Designed for students and lecturers in jurisprudence and gender studies. "Ngaire Naffine took her PhD in law from the University of Adelaide. She is the author of "Female crime: the construction of women in criminology" (Allen & Unwin) and is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Law Department of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University."

Alternative Title

Explorations in feminist jurisprudence

Subject

• Women > Legal status, laws, etc
• Feminism
• Sociological jurisprudence
• Equality before the law
• Femmes > Droit
• Féminisme
• Sociologie juridique
• Égalité devant la loi
• feminism
• Gelijke rechten
• Seksen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Feminist excavations -- Blind justice -- The community of strangers -- Lawyers and the legal paradox -- The man of law -- The sacrificial men -- Keeping women in their place -- Rethinking the law.

ISBN

• 0044422105
• 9780044422105

LCCN

89082451

OCLC

• 22875512
• SCSB-10369595

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library