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Applications of feminist legal theory to women's lives : sex, violence, work, and reproduction /

This book, the second of two volumes, examines the pressing issues that affect women-pornography, prostitution, battery, rape, pay equity, sexual harassment, motherhood, abortion, adoption, new reproductive technologies-and considers them through the lens of feminist legal theory. It features more t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Weisberg, D. Kelly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
Colección:Women in the political economy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • PART I: SEXUALITY
  • 1. PORNOGRAPHY
  • Introduction
  • Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality
  • Not a Moral Issue
  • Francis Biddle's Sister: Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech
  • Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon
  • Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women, and Pornographers
  • American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. v. Hudnut
  • Butler v. The Queen
  • Brief Amici Curiae of Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce et aI., in American Booksellers Association, Inc. v. Hudnut
  • A Feminist Critique of ''The'' Feminist Critique of PornographyCarlin Meyer· Sex, Sin, and Women's Liberation: Against Porn-Suppression
  • Romn L. West· The Difference in Women's Hedonic Lives: A Phenomenological Critique of Feminist Legal Theory
  • 2. PROSTITUTION
  • Introduction
  • Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  • Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment
  • Defending Prostitution: Charges Against Ericsson
  • Prostitution and Civil Rights
  • The Feminist Debate over Prostitution Reform: Prostitutes' Rights Groups, Radical Feminists, and the (Im)possibility of ConsentA Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto (An Unfinished Draft)
  • Split at the Root: Prostitution and Feminist Discourses of Law Reform
  • PART II: VIOLENCE
  • 3. BATTERED WOMEN
  • Introduction
  • The Roots of the Battered Women's Movement: Personal and Political
  • State v. Wanrow
  • Describing and Changing: Women's Self-Defense Work and the Problem of Expert Testimony on Battering
  • Women's Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of WomenLegal Images of Battered Women: Redefining the Issue of Separation
  • Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
  • Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law and Lesbian Legal Theory
  • The Violence of Privacy
  • 4. RAPE
  • Introduction
  • Rape: The All-American Crime
  • Rape
  • Michael M. v. Superior Court
  • Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis
  • Rape: On Coercion and Consent
  • Date Rape: A Feminist AnalysisRape, Racism, and the Law
  • Equality Theory, Marital Rape, and the Promise of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • PART III: EMPLOYMENT
  • 5. EMPLOYMENT
  • A. The Work-Family Conflict, Occupational Segregation, and Comparable Worth
  • Introduction
  • Work and Family: The Gender Paradox and the Limitations of Discrimination Analysis in Restructuring the Workplace
  • EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Appellate Opinion)
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck & Company: A Personal Account