Visible Women : Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy.

How should feminist theories conceive of the subject? What is it to be a legal person? What part does embodiment play in subjectivity? Can there be a conception of rights which does justice to the social contexts in which rights claims are embedded? Is the way the law constitutes legal subjects a fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Susan
Otros Autores: Palmer, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002.
Temas:
Feminist jurisprudence.
Feminist theory.
Féminisme et droit.
Théorie féministe.
Feminist jurisprudence
Feminist theory
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Feminism and the Politics of Difference. Or, Where Have All the Women Gone?; THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE; IDENTITY/DIFFERENCE AND THE DISAPPEARING WOMAN; THE REIFICATION OF DIFFERENCE; FEMINISM AND MULTICULTURALISM; BEYOND THE BINARY OF FEMALE AND MALE; 2. The Mother of the Legal Person; I INTRODUCTION; II BECOMING A LEGAL PERSON; III DECONSTRUCTING A LEGAL PERSON; IV RE-NEGOTIATING THE SELF/OTHER BOUNDARY; V MANIPULATING THE COMPETENT/INCOMPETENT BOUNDARY.
  • VI SOME CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON INDIVIDUATION AND LAW3. Can Women be Legal Persons?; I INTRODUCTION; II WHY SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT LEGAL PERSONS? THE FEMINIST CASE FOR LOOKING AT PERSONALITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE MODERN DISAVOWAL OF ITS CONTINUING POLITICS; III FROM STATUS TO CONTRACT-FROM PERSONA TO PERSONALITY? WHO IS THE MODERN LEGAL PERSON?; IV CAN WOMEN BE LEGAL PERSONS?; 4. Feminism and the Promise of Human Rights: Possibilities and Paradoxes; THE LEGAL SUBJECT AND RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
  • THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DIVIDE; EQUALITY, NON-DISCRIMINATION AND THE CONVENTION; CONCLUSION; 5. Violence, Ethics and Law: Feminist Reflections on a Familiar Dilemma; LAW'S VIOLENCE; CONCEPTUALISING THE SUBJECT OF LAW; SPECIFIC DEBATES EMERGING FROM THE "SEXING" ANALYSIS; DILEMMAS OF CONTEXTUALISATION; CONCLUSION; 6. Sexual Difference and Collective Identities: The New Global Constellation; POSTMODERNISM AND GLOBALISATION; THE PROBLEM OF THE SUBJECT REVISITED.
  • THE NARRATIVE MODEL OF IDENTITY CONSTITUTION I: VIRGINIA WOOLF'S ORLANDOTHE NARRATIVE MODEL OF IDENTITY CONSTITUTION II: CHARLES TAYLOR'S SOURCES OF THE SELF; PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM: THE LIMITS OF NARRATIVITY; COMPLEX SUBJECTIVITIES, THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE, AND THE NEW CONSTELLATION; THE VOCATION OF THE FEMINIST THEORIST: A CULTURAL BROKER?; 7. The Politics of ''Presence'' and ''Difference'': Working Through Spinoza and Eliot; I WORKING THROUGH "THE DEMONS"; II A POLITICS OF PRESENCE?; III SPINOZISTIC INSIGHTS; IV A POLITICS OF PRESENCE-REVISITED.
  • V "PRESENCE", "IDENTITY" AND ETHICO-POLITICAL ONTOLOGY8. Freedom and the Imaginary; I; II; Index.

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