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Title

Feminist legal theory : an anti-essentialist reader / edited by Nancy E. Dowd and Michelle S. Jacobs.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Dowd, Nancy E., 1949-
• Jacobs, Michelle S.

Description

x, 417 p.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Feminist jurisprudence
• Feminist theory
• Women > Legal status, laws, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The future of feminist legal theory / P.A. Cain -- Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism / M.B. Zinn and B.T. Dill -- Autonomy, aspiration, and accomplishment / P. Smith -- The multiple self / J.A. Powell -- The development of feminist consciousness among Asian American women / E. Ngan-Ling Chow -- At the intersection of gender and sexual orientation / M. Eaton -- The LatIndia and mestizajes / B.E. Hernández-Truyol -- White privilege and male privilege / P. McIntosh -- Beside my sister, facing the enemy / M.J. Matsuda -- Feminist methods in international law / H. Charlesworth -- Turning the gaze back on itself / B. Cossman.
• Implementing antiessentialism / J. Williams -- Spiritual and menial housework / D.E. Roberts -- Toward a global critical feminist vision / T.L. Banks -- (Dis)assembling rights of women workers along the global assembly line / L. Ho, C. Powell, and L. Volpp -- Commercial sex / S.A. Law -- Working without a job / M. Diller -- Equality, of the right sort / E.J. McCaffery -- African-American women and economic justice / P.H. Collins -- How should human rights and development respond to cultural legitimization of gender hierarchy in developing countries? / C.I. Nyamu.
• Family, feminism, and race in America / M.B. Zinn -- Cracking the foundational myths / M.A. Fineman -- Children's rights / B. Bennett Woodhouse -- Coercing privacy / A. Allen -- In defense of single-parent families / N.E. Dowd -- From madonna to proletariat / T.L. Brito -- We will get what we ask for ...? / N.D. Polikoff -- "The past never vanishes" / L.M. Graham -- Transracial and international adoption / T.L. Perry -- Gender matters / K.H. Rothenberg -- The fuzzy logic of race and gender in the mismeasure of Asian American women's health needs / L.C. Ikemoto -- Representing race / D.E. Roberts -- Blaming culture for bad behavior / L. Volpp -- Bridges and barricades / L.A. Obiora.
• Gender, violence, race, and criminal justice / A.P. Harris -- Multiple masculinities / R.L. Toker -- "It's like living in a black hole" / C. Shaylor -- The shame of it / A.E. Ray -- Commercial sex: beyond decriminalization / S.A. Law -- Converging stereotypes in racialized sexual harassment / S.K. Cho -- The Violence Against Women Act and the construction of multiple consciousness in the civil rights and feminist movements / J. Rivera -- Cultural evidence and male violence / H. Maguigan -- Ignoring the sexualization of race / D.L. Hutchinson -- Requiring battered women die / M.S. Jacobs -- Between vengeance and forgiveness / M. Minow -- Enhancing autonomy for battered women / D. Coker.

ISBN

• 0814719120 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0814719139 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2002011494

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library