"Feminist Legal Theory" is a collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with "African American feminism" or "critical race feminism" added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout. The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms.
Nancy Dowd is Professor and David Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is the editor of the Families, Law and Society series at NYU Press, and author or editor of numerous books, including A New Juvenile Justice System (NYU 2015). Robert R.M. Verchick is the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Law at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow at Tulane University's School of Social Work. He is the author of Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World. Martha Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor at Harvard Law School.
0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman">part i Theories, Strategies, and Methodologies part ii Women's Work and Wealth part iii Women, Children, Well-Being, and the State part iv Women and Violence: Individuals, the State, and Other Actors
Explores the convergence of race, class, and gender in the study of theory, family, work, and economic issues especially as they pertain to women.
"...Recommend quite strongly this well-edited and thought-provoking text. It provides a valuable contribution to legal scholarhsip." --Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice "If one wants to engage with the differences of women's lives in experiences, Dowd and Jacob's Anti-Essentialist Reader will be an enlightening beginning. With its emphasis on collaboration, it includes necessary but uncomfortable conversations, recognizing the challenges of cultural ethnocentrism and relativism which American feminists face. There are few expectations upon which it does not deliver." --Feminist Legal Studies
