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Law, crime and sexuality : essays in feminism / Carol Smart.

Title
Law, crime and sexuality : essays in feminism / Carol Smart.
Author
Smart, Carol.
Publication
London ; Thousand Oaks [Calif.] : Sage Pub., 1995.

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250 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Law, crime, and sexuality transcends the traditional fragmentation of sociology, criminology, socio-legal studies, and feminist theory and philosophy. It enables readers to draw on aspects from each discipline and see how various themes and discussions are related. Compiled specifically for students' needs, the essays show that theory need not be too hard or too inaccessible, and help students to understand the law in conceptual terms while enabling them to become fully aware of the extent to which the law is implicated in our everyday lives.
Subject
  • Börngen, ..
  • Women > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Sex and law
  • Women > Crimes against
  • Feminist theory
  • Feminist jurisprudence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-244) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Part one: Criminology -- Introduction -- Criminological theory -- Its ideology and implications concerning women -- Feminist approaches to criminology, or postmodern woman meets atavistic man -- Part two: Sexuality -- Introduction -- Legal subjects and sexual objects -- Ideology, law and female sexuality -- Law's power, the sexed body and feminist discourse -- Unquestionably a moral issue -- Rhetorical devices and regulatory imperatives -- Law, feminism and sexuality -- From essence to ethics? -- Part three: Feminist theory and law -- Introduction -- Legal regulation or male control? -- Feminism and the law -- Some problems of analysis and strategy -- Feminist jurisprudence -- The woman of legal discourse -- Proscription, prescription and the desire for certainty? -- Feminist theory in the field of law -- Postscript of the 1990s, or 'Still angry after all these years'.
ISBN
  • 0803989598 (hbk.)
  • 0803989601 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^94069678^
OCLC
  • 31999930
  • SCSB-10239520
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library