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Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

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Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy

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Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy book

Edited ByMaria Drakopoulou
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 13 December 2013
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203797112
Pages 232
eBook ISBN 9780203797112
Subjects Humanities, Law
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Drakopoulou, M. (Ed.). (2013). Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203797112

ABSTRACT

Presenting feminist readings of texts from the legal philosophical and jurisprudential canon, the papers collected here offer an interdisciplinary and critical challenge to established modes of reading law. Feminist approaches to law usually take the form of either critical engagements with legal doctrine, legal concepts and ideas, or critical assessments of the effects that specific areas of law have upon the lives of women. This collection, however, although rooted in feminist legal scholarship, takes the established canon of legal texts as the object of inquiry. Taking as their common starting point the fact that legal texts are plural and open to multiple readings, all the contributions in this collection offer subversive, but supplementary, interpretations of the legal canon. In this respect, however, they do not merely sustain an array of feminist styles and theories of reading; revealing and re-appropriating the plural space of legal interpretation, they seek to open a hitherto unexplored arena for a feminist politics of law.

Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary collection that will interest students and scholars of Law, Philosophy, and Feminism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction: reading law reading women

ByMaria Drakopoulou

chapter 2|11 pages

A voice beyond the law: reading Cavarero reading Plato

ByPatrick Hanafi n

chapter 3|19 pages

The sex of right reason: Aquinas and the misogynist foundations of natural law

ByMargaret Denike

chapter 4|11 pages

The accidental feminist: on the Pythagorean roots of John Selden’s Jani Anglorum

ByPeter Goodrich

chapter 5|16 pages

Hobbes, unhealthy desires and freedom: a feminist reading

ByJanice Richardson

chapter 6|26 pages

Samuel Pufendorf, feminism and the question of ‘women and law’

ByMaria Drakopoulou

chapter 7|12 pages

Blackstone, Bentham and the romance of law

BySusan Chaplin

chapter 8|19 pages

Hegel on law, women and contract

chapter 9|15 pages

Resonance: why feminists do/ought not read Kelsen

ByPanu Minkkinen

chapter 10|20 pages

Legal form, commodities and reproduction: reading Pashukanis

ByRuth Fletcher

chapter 11|27 pages

Reading Arendt ‘reading’ Schmitt: reading nomos otherwise?

ByJulia H. Chryssostalis

chapter 12|20 pages

Ambiguities: law, morality, and legal subjectivity in H. L. A. Hart’s The Concept of Law

ByEmma Cunliffe
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