The gender line : : men, women, and the law / / Nancy Levit.

Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, perm...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [1998]
©1998
Year of Publication:1998
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Critical America Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Gender Separatism
  • 3. How Courts Enforce Gender Separatism
  • 4. Making Men
  • 5. The "F" Word
  • 6. Feminist Legal Theory and the Treatment of Men
  • 7. Reconstructing Images of Gender in Theory
  • 8. Remaking Gender in Practice
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author