This book provides a student text covering the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject.
Part 1 The Foundations of Feminist Jurisprudence;
Chapter 1 Introduction;
Chapter 2 Gender Inequalities and Law;
Chapter 3 Patriarchy; Part 2 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique;
Chapter 4 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: I Ancient Greek Political Thought and Natural Law Theory;
Chapter 5 Conventional Jurisprudence and Feminist Critique: II Positive Law and Social Contract Theory; Part 3 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought;
Chapter 6 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: I Liberalism and Marxism;
Chapter 7 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: II Difference Feminism/Cultural Feminism;
Chapter 8 Schools of Feminist Jurisprudential Thought: III Radical Feminism;
Chapter 9 Postmodernism and Critical Legal Studies; Part 4 Key Issues in Feminist Jurisprudence;
Chapter 10 Women and Medicine;
Chapter 11 Women, violence and the Legal System;
Chapter 12 Pornography and Prostitution;
Hilaire Barnett Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London
