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This book comes about as a result of the problems that face
contemporary feminists who teach, research, and write about the
law. The goal of the editors in this volume is to build on, and
empirically flesh out, the feminist argument that law cannot be
thought of as simply a determining force in the defining of
'woman,' but the law must be thought of as a site of struggle.
Traditionally, feminist research takes the view that law produces
effects that discipline, control, and regulate women. This book
will avoid these depictions of law as a malevolent actor, and will
instead concentrate on the struggles over meanings about gender.
The editors and contributors to this volume explore and analyse law
as a 'gendering practice.' This 'gendering practice' assumes that
law is a practice that interacts with other practices to produce
meanings about gender. The editors' analysis focuses on and
illustrates the complex and often contradictory workings of legal
discourse. The book will demonstrate how legal discourse
participates in the defining and construction of 'woman' and
thereby reproduces the social relations of power that we find in
contemporary law. While they may focus on diverse aspects of the
law, all of the contributors address the same issue in their
respective analyses: how legal struggles over meanings about gender
are reproduced, legitimized, and refashioned.
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