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Law and Politics at the Perimeter - Re-Evaluating Key Debates in Feminist Theory (Paperback, New)
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Law and Politics at the Perimeter - Re-Evaluating Key Debates in Feminist Theory (Paperback, New)
Series: Legal Theory Today
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Feminist critique has made a significant impact both in terms of
informing our theoretical approach to law and politics as social
phenomena, and in terms of encouraging the development of increased
opportunities and protection for individual women. Despite its
successes, however, feminist thought has suffered from internal
disagreements and schisms. Whilst united by their commitment to
highlight and undermine gender-based discrimination, disparate
feminist theorists have disagreed over a range of issues central to
that project. In particular, there has been long-standing feminist
debate over the utility of legal reform tactics, the patriarchal
nature of the State, and the legitimacy of woman-centred
methodology and grand-theorising. The ferocity of these debates has
intensified in contemporary times with the increasing reception of
postmodern and pluralist analyses. Vehemently against the
establishment of meta-narratives or essentialist accounts of
generic womanhood, the postmodern insistence on subversion over
critique, and on dislocation over collectivism, has severed an
already fragile link between feminist theory and practice. Set
against this backdrop, this book offers a critical re-appraisal of
contemporary feminist legal and political theory. It re-visits key
feminist debates over the origins of patriarchy, as well as over
the role of liberalism and the rule of law in its creation and
perpetuation. It re-evaluates feminist calls for the dislocation of
legal reform strategies and rights-based claims. And it draws upon
the work of 'mainstream' analytical jurists, as well as
philosophers like Foucault and Wittgenstein, to re-cast the terrain
around key concepts of power, identity and equality within feminist
political theory.
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