ABSTRACT
In Chapter 16, Amir Paz-Fuchs discusses Robin West’s Economic Man and Literary Woman and asserts that the important contribution for a student of the law is when she highlights the fact that the traditional, analytic understanding of law implicitly adopts a viewpoint, seemingly without the need to justify it. The chapter asserts that an important contribution of West’s article for a student of the law is one that is simultaneously modest and radical. It is modest because it does not, necessarily, require adhering to a particular perspective – that of the victim of sexual assault, of the Black man who fears to speak out, of the gay woman who fears to come out. But it is also radical, because it suggests, albeit implicitly, that the law can and should take account of these perspectives. It suggests, in other words, that the pseudo-rational perspective of law is not the only one that is available.
