Synopses & Reviews
View the or the Introductions by
Nancy E. Dowd and
Michelle S. Jacobs "...Recommend quite strongly this well-edited and thought-provoking text. It provides a valuable contribution to legal scholarhsip."
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
"If one wants to engage with the differences of women's lives in experiences, Dowd and Jacob's Anti-Essentialist Reader will be an enlightening beginning. With its emphasis on collaboration, it includes necessary but uncomfortable conversations, recognizing the challenges of cultural ethnocentrism and relativism which American feminists face. There are few expectations upon which it does not deliver."
Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with "African American feminism" or "critical race feminism" added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout.
The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. This vibrant, challenging collection of work by a broad range of authors represents the cutting edge of feminist theory in concrete applications essential to gender equality.
Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Angela P. Harris, Sylvia A. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. powell, Jenny Rivera, and Maxine Baca Zinn.
Review
“. . . Recommend quite strongly this well-edited and thought-provoking text. It provides a valuable contribution to legal scholarship.”
-Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
Review
“If one wants to engage with the differences of womens lives in experiences, Dowd and Jacobs Anti-Essentialist Reader will be an enlightening beginning. With its emphasis on collaboration, it includes necessary but uncomfortable conversations, recognizing the challenges of cultural ethnocentrism and relativism which American feminists face. There are few expectations upon which it does not deliver.”
-Feminist Legal Studies,
Synopsis
Feminist Legal Theory is a groundbreaking collection of feminist work proceeding from the core assumption that the differences among women are essential to feminist analysis. Rather than presenting feminist legal theory sequentially, with “African American feminism” or “critical race feminism” added on at the end, the volume thoroughly integrates key readings from non-white, non-middle class, and non-mainstream writers throughout.
The volume explores the intersections of race, class, and gender in such areas as theory, family, work and economic issues, and violence against women. Each section of the book begins with an introduction providing context and insights into how the particular pieces included challenge norms and create new paradigms. This vibrant, challenging collection of work by a broad range of authors represents the cutting edge of feminist theory in concrete applications essential to gender equality.
Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Angela P. Harris, Sylvia A. Law, Mari Matsuda, Martha Minow, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, john a. powell, Jenny Rivera, and Maxine Baca Zinn.
Synopsis
Explores the convergence of race, class, and gender in the study of theory, family, work, and economic issues especially as they pertain to women.
About the Author
Nancy E. Dowd is the director of the Center for Children and Families at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law and holds the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law. She is the author of several books, including
Redefining Fatherhood (NYU Press).
Michelle S. Jacobs is Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Table of Contents
Gender, violence, race, and criminal justice / A.P. Harris -- Multiple masculinities / R.L. Toker -- "It's like living in a black hole" / C. Shaylor -- The shame of it / A.E. Ray -- Commercial sex: beyond decriminalization / S.A. Law -- Converging stereotypes in racialized sexual harassment / S.K. Cho -- The Violence Against Women Act and the construction of multiple consciousness in the civil rights and feminist movements / J. Rivera -- Cultural evidence and male violence / H. Maguigan -- Ignoring the sexualization of race / D.L. Hutchinson -- Requiring battered women die / M.S. Jacobs -- Between vengeance and forgiveness / M. Minow -- Enhancing autonomy for battered women / D. Coker.