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,
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"Joan Kennedy Taylor demonstrates that free speech and women's empowerment are as mutually reinforcing in the workplace as in other contexts. She makes a persuasive case that countering offensive workplace expression with more speech is a constructive response from the perspectives of all concerned: notably, the pioneer women workers in traditionally male-only occupations, who often feel ostracized and vilified; the men in such workplaces, who often are unprepared to interact with women co-workers; and the employers who want to promote cooperative relationships among their employees and to avoid lawsuits."-Nadine Strossen,President, ACLU, author of Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,and Professor at New York Law School
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"This book is the long-awaited tool for those who suspect that sexual harassment can be addressed using commonsense and targeted skills rather than by fashionable rhetoric and legal threats. Both the thoroughness of the research and the clarity and straightforwardness of the writing protect the reader from falling prey to the common assumptions that permeate gender issues today."-Jayne Tear,human resources trainerspecializing in gender issues
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"A thoughtful analysis of sexual harassment behavior and policy in the modern American workplace."-Business Insurance,
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"In an unprecedentedly illuminating, logical, multi-dimensional and fair alternative to the present inflammatory legal system, this book shows the way to truly liberating sense and sensibility."-Nat Hentoff,
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"Lucidly written, eminently reasonable. . . Taylor brings a wonderful clarity to the problems of male/female relationships in the workplace. Enthusiastically recommended."-Nathaniel Branden,author of A Woman's Self Esteem
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.
Synopsis
In Sexual Harassment, Joan Kennedy Taylor questions establishment assumptions that women are, by definition, passive victims who require government help. She not only summarizes present law and policies but illustrates various non-governmental methods of countering expressive behavior that is offensive but not truly harassing, including a new feminist approach to company training programs.
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.