Our Lives Before the Law : : Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence / / Judith A. Baer.
According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In Our Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework...
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Baer, Judith A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Our Lives Before the Law : Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence / Judith A. Baer. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1999] ©2000 1 online resource (296 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: LAW THROUGH WOMEN'S LIVES -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Is Law Male? The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence -- THREE. What Makes Law Male? Gendered Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique -- FOUR. How Is Law Male? Gendered Method and Feminist Response -- PART II: WOMEN'S LIVES THROUGH LAW -- FIVE. Reconstructing Equality: Feminist Constitutional Doctrine -- SIX. Reconstructing Rights: Feminist Reproductive Freedom -- SEVEN. Reconstructing Responsibility: Feminist Fetal Protection -- EIGHT. Toward a Feminist Post liberalism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF CASES restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In Our Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence--one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh and creative ways with liberalism. Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for this bias. By emphasizing the ways in which the system fails women, feminists have lost sight of how it can be used to promote women's interests and have made it easy for conventional scholars to ignore legitimate feminist concerns. In particular, feminists have wrongly linked the genuine flaws of conventional legal theory to its basis in liberalism, arguing that liberalism focuses too heavily on individual freedom and not enough on individual responsibility. In fact, Baer contends, liberalism rests on a presumption of personal responsibility and can be used as a powerful intellectual foundation for holding men and male institutions more accountable for their actions. The traditional feminist approach, Baer writes, has led to endless debates about such abstract matters as character differences between men and women, and has failed to deal sufficiently with concrete problems with the legal system. She thus constructs a new feminist interpretation of three central components of conventional theory--equality, rights, and responsibility--through analysis of such pressing legal issues as constitutional interpretation, reproductive choice, and fetal protection. Baer concludes by presenting the outline of what she calls "feminist post-liberalism": an approach to jurisprudence that not only values individual freedoms but also recognizes our responsibility for addressing individuals' needs, however different those may be for men and women. Powerfully and passionately written, Our Lives Before the Law will have a major impact on the future course of feminist legal scholarship. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Feminist jurisprudence. Femmes Droit États-Unis. Women Legal status, laws, etc United States. Women Legal status, laws, etc. LAW / Jurisprudence. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691019451 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823338 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400823338 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400823338.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I: LAW THROUGH WOMEN'S LIVES -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Is Law Male? The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence -- THREE. What Makes Law Male? Gendered Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique -- FOUR. How Is Law Male? Gendered Method and Feminist Response -- PART II: WOMEN'S LIVES THROUGH LAW -- FIVE. Reconstructing Equality: Feminist Constitutional Doctrine -- SIX. Reconstructing Rights: Feminist Reproductive Freedom -- SEVEN. Reconstructing Responsibility: Feminist Fetal Protection -- EIGHT. Toward a Feminist Post liberalism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF CASES |
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