Law as a gendering practice

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Law as a gendering practice

edited by Dorothy E. Chunn and Dany Lacombe

Oxford University Press, 2000

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Includes bebiliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • PART I: THEORIZING LAW AS A GENDERING PRACTICE
  • PART II: CONSTRUCTING THE (HETERO)SEXUAL SUBJECT OF LEGAL DISCOURSE
  • PART III: CONSTRUCTING THE RACIALIZED OTHER OF LEGAL DISCOURSE
  • PART IV: CONSTRUCTING THE PUBLIC/PRIVATE DISTINCTION OF LEGAL DISCOURSE

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